Hi there, I'm Ben Faerber π¦πͺ

- Stripy Horse - A developer platform for Zebra label printing, built in Go. Converts PDFs, images and HTML to ZPL, renders pixel-accurate previews, grades barcodes for scannability, and runs virtual Zebra printers on TCP 9100 so you can test without a printer in the room. REST API with official SDKs for PHP, Python, C#, Java and Go.
- Liquid ML - Shopify's Liquid templating language for OCaml. Build server rendered HTML, documentation generators and more with OCaml. Featured in Awesome OCaml! Β
- PDF to ZPL - Convert a PDF into the ZPL format. Allowing for custom images, alphabets like Hebrew, Arabic and Cyrillic (without messing with fonts on the printer) and multipage shipping labels!
- Rector Laravel (Contributor) - Added automatic refactoring for
isset($_POST['a'])to use Laravel's Request Facade
- yt-dlp (Contributor) - Reverse engineered the livestreaming platform Parti and built a stream downloader.
- Tray Item RS (Contributor) - Added support for dynamically updating Windows Tray Applications natively. Β
- Slumber (Contributor) - Added support for parsing and importing a VSCode
restcollection and a Jetbrainshttp. - USB Scale - Connect to USB scales in Rust. I use it to connect scales to my shipping software. Β
- CawTalker - An AI for understanding American crow vocalizations: a call classifier, a field app, and CrowGPT, a 21M parameter GPT trained on 375GB of crow calls.
π» I'm from Salt Lake City, Utah and am currently working at True Leaf Market creating shipping software (Go, Rust, PHP, TypeScript, Python). I also run Stripy Horse, a Go developer platform for Zebra label printing. In my spare time I work with Rust, OCaml, and C and hang out in Open Source Communities.
π If you are using any of my projects and are having bugs or need a new feature, please reach out and I will do my best to help you!





