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Every SSH Key

Thu, May 20, 2021 | 600 Words

TL;DR: Every SSH Key on Tumblr. IF MY DEMANDS ARE NOT MET I WILL GENERATE AND PUBLISH AN SSH KEY EVERY 3 HOURS, SLOWLY REDUCING THE ENTROPY OF THE AVAILABLE SSH KEYSPACE AND REVEALING EVERYONE'S PRIVATE KEYS. — Comrade Snowy (@EmperorSnowy) May 15, 2021 .twitter-tweet { margin: auto; } The above tweet, from my panther friend, struck a chord with me. So working with them I decided to throw together a quick bot that would generate and publish SSH keys on a regular basis.

SoundOfTwitter Part 3: VPS Time

Wed, May 12, 2021 | 500 Words

Update 2023-03-25: I’ve had to take this down thanks to some fuckboy’s API changes. TL;DR: Aural - Sound Of Twitter changed hosting and stream! (Update: Offline for now) Well! A bit changed since last post. Most prominently: yesterday I received a missive from AWS, a preset alert that I was going over my established high water mark for expected bill this month (not even halfway through!). It looks like running API Gateway for websockets is spenno.

SoundOfTwitter Part 2: Public Ready

Wed, May 5, 2021 | 400 Words

Update 2023-03-25: I’ve had to take this down thanks to some fuckboy’s API changes. TL;DR: Aural - Sound Of Twitter After my last post discussing building a local site that lets you “listen” to Twitter, I decided to put it on the public-facing internet. But rather than just whack it on a VPS I decided to expand my horizons by putting a bunch of components through AWS. My desired setup was:

SoundOfTwitter Part 1: Local Application

Mon, May 3, 2021 | 600 Words

Update 2023-03-25: I’ve had to take this down thanks to some fuckboy’s API changes. One of my favourite sites, for years, has been Listen To Wikipedia, a soothing project in the idea of beauty and art coming from systems. Years back I set up the [Holiday by Moore’s Cloud] lights with a script that would automatically hook into the streaming of Wikipedia edit notifications and change in time to them, and the music if the web app was open concurrently.

Tweet Process Pipeline

Sun, Aug 4, 2019 | 1000 Words

Preamble A long time ago I built a Twitter bot which allowed you to play a text adventure game by tweeting commands at it and receiving personalised responses. I’ve always been interested in doing more with this project, but there’s been two major holdups: I’ve lacked personal writing inspiration (and found no interested writers) to help with content for the game. The original code is an absolute mess. Eventually during a skint section of my life I had to get rid of the virtual machine that runs the bot and it’s remained dormant and inactive for years.