Infrastructure & Systems Engineer

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Pawan Sedara • Peerlist

<h3>PlainLink is a local-first URL cleaner designed for macOS.</h3>The core of PlainLink is a portable cleaning engine built with Rust, complemented by a macOS clipboard watcher. Its primary objective is to evolve into a community-driven project, maintaining a comprehensive ruleset similar to ad-blocker lists, specifically for stripping tracking parameters from copied URLs.Key Features:<ul><li>Local-First Operation: Processes URLs directly on your Mac without making network requests, ensuring privacy and speed.</li><li>Clipboard Monitoring: Automatically watches the clipboard for URLs and cleans them before you paste.</li><li>Customizable Ruleset: Aims to build a community-maintained collection of rules for identifying and removing tracking parameters.</li><li>Preserves Unknown Parameters: Ensures that parameters not recognized as tracking remain in the URL, maintaining functionality for invites, resets, and other dynamic links.</li><li>User-Friendly Interface: Includes a menu bar application for easy control and status monitoring, with options like 'Pause Cleaning' and 'Restore Last Original'.</li><li>Command-Line Interface (CLI): Offers direct interaction for cleaning, inspecting URLs, managing the watcher, and running diagnostics.</li></ul>PlainLink is ideal for users who want to maintain cleaner URLs without compromising privacy or functionality. The project is open-source and encourages community contributions to its ruleset.

PlainLink

Built and maintained public-facing VPS infrastructure running Dockerized services, reverse proxy routing, secure networking, and self-hosted operational tooling. Deployed and managed services including SearXNG and Forgejo using Linux-based environments, Caddy reverse proxies, WireGuard networking, firewall management, and containerized workflows focused on reliability and operational control.