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James Pond
@jamespond.co
Debugging code, capturing moments, reading too much, raising a tiny human, and building privacy-first open source tools. Hi, I’m James! 👋
Thank you!!
January 21, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Thanks! Librario aims to solve that problem, and Booktello aims to surface that information in an easy to consume way. Both free.
January 21, 2026 at 9:51 PM
I’m thinking Goodreads or Bookshelf, but with privacy as a focus and without the social features. Something focused on what matters, the your books and your reading pleasure.
January 20, 2026 at 9:57 PM
The “run an LLM automatically if the test fails” idea seems like a fun and useful weekend project. I might take a look at that.
November 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Yes what? Do they use it or am I showing my age? The digital dinosaur part might be a clue 🤔
October 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The world runs on it these days, and it’s quite fun to work with!
October 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Have a few ideas for projects using this API 🤔

- A front-end so people can search information about books.
- A “is this a series” kind of website that tells you if a book is part of a series.
- A website where you can download book covers.

So many ideas, so little time. Thanks, tiny human!
October 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Just change the ISBN to the one of whatever book you want information on.

The API hasn’t been tested outside my network, runs on a single small VPS, and is likely to break apart, but hey, it’s progress!
October 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Thanks!
October 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM