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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

the output looks a bit like this (thanks @eta)

random feed picker

by alifeee, source
random picker results

...got OPML file...
...show file...

...found 117 urls...
...show feed urls...

your random feed is https://eta.st/feed.xml!

...got feed file...
...show file...

...in the feed I find 8 items...
...show item urls...

your random item is...

https://eta.st/2021/06/20/showtime.html

to get another feed, refresh the page! (hopefully you will be asked to resubmit the form)

or return to form

alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

added my random picker to my /rss/ page, so now I can set it off again without having to use the form selector alifeee.net/rss

website, text:

Random Picker

most (all!?) feed readers offer an "export" feature which will give you an OPML file containing links to all your feeds.

beware! the form below sends your export to my server! I promise I don't save it. But, if you want to run this yourself, the source code is on randomrss.cgi, which you can modify and run as a bash script.
OPML file
get random post!

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

going to see Cory Doctorow in Sheffield. neat! not often you get to meet a non-UK internet person who's blog you read (other opportunities include FOSDEM... CCC...) www.outsavvy.com/event/40274/cory-d…

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

> my friend built this looks inside > claude coded github repo

screenshot of github repo showing Claude code notice

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

today I made this image. i am not sure why.

picture of tunnel but actually it's 9 pictures stapled together

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

hey, interrail passes are 50% off. only happened once before. neat-o free trains for 31 straight days for only £227. seems pretty good

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

ohhhh yeah, it's so easy to be marked as spam. just exist B)

screenshot of mail delivery subsystem telling my my message could not be sent

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

watching my completely untrusted self-hosted email server be rejected over and over he he he

screenshot of logs showing a message being rejected from a remote server and rescheduled for delivery later

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

we've nearly reached the centenary of student loan balance ! how exciting !

screenshot of student loan balance, showing it as 99k, nearly 100k!

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

you know, since you asked so nicely, remote. maybe I won't

screenshot of terminal, text:

"* * *

Welcome to the SSH server. All activity is logged.

Please do not use 'sudo' or leave your home directory.

Have a nice day!

* * *"

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

and you can have a nice self-reported attendee list :]

screenshot of webpage showing list of attendees

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

still loving gathio (after I saw @thechaoszone using it) ezpz make event pages for your low-stakes events for friends or friends+ …and a great excuse to make a @mags@post.lurk.org (or @mags@mags.omg.lol ?)-esque collage ^.^ gath.io

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

hey a blog post ! blog.alifeee.net/solar-eclipse not sure why I pasted the image when in theory Mastodon should also do it. sorry if it appears twice. really sorry. won't do it again sir. sorry sir.

screenshot of blog post header, showing image of two people holding up a hitchhiking sign asking to go to france/spain for the solar eclipse

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

it's official. august is come. i am project free. as the goals intended they said it was impossible

screenshot of two project folders showing no files (empty)

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

hey I made a PR, here's the preview page in the meanwhile server.alifeee.net/static/ircfiles/… (paging @samw)

screenshot of tiny toolkit page showing my tiny sewing kit

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

the big question: should I make my website only work on weekends

screenshot of text showing how a website could only work on weekends

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

can it really be "really easy" if it requires sockets programming? I'm not convinced

screenshot of website, text: "HTTP Made Really Easy -- requires basic sockets programming experience-- not recommended for beginning programmers. "

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

gotta watch out for those hackers!

screenshot of info box, text: " CGI Security:

One must filter the input to avoid cross site scripting. Filter out "<>&*?./" to avoid trouble from hackers. "

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

my EMF photos are geotagged as "Ledbury, Sheffield, Karlsruhe, Eastnor" one of these things is not like the others never change, access-points-borrowed-from-CCC-that-still-report-they're-in-Germany #EMFCamp

screenshot of photos showing location of Karlsruhe

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

with only minor inside- or underside-cheating

picture of inside of laptop showing a few stickers

picture of underside of laptop showing a few stickers

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

I managed it. spot the difference

picture of laptop with loads of stickers, and a few empty sticker blanks

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

help how do I deprioritise stickers

picture of laptop covered in stickers with more stickers above it

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

soon, my tiny toolkit, coming to a tinytoolk.it site near you

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

now feeling like I see this note on almost every github project I open

screenshot of note saying that Claude has contributed to a repository

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

they tell me I have to know how to touch type in order to type fast I tell them, nah mate, just press fingers on keys innit. practise innit. play.typeracer.com

screenshot of type racer race where I have achieved 108 wpm

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

I finally made that tool I wanted to make interactive alt-text writer given an HTML or markdown file with images without alt text, it opens each image in turn, asks you for alt text, and edits the original file made a script myself because every time I […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

screenshot of two windows. one displays an image. the other displays a text box with a title "alt text"

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

stickers from #EMFCamp tried to keep it minimal ... most were given to me

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

making a horrific browser history viewer to see my history for June (as part of being inspired by @caolan's link log and not wanting to do the simple thing of "just write down articles as you read them")

screenshot of webpage showing browser history, strangely

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

hey I made a simple index page for my EMF camp trip … you reckon anything is missing? alifeee.net/emf #EMFCamp

screenshot of website with some information

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alifeee @alifeee.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

hey, the bookmark comparer I made for FOSDEM (mostly) works for the EMF favourites too blog.alifeee.net/fosdem/bookmarks you can export your favourites on www.emfcamp.org/favourites as an ics file, and upload several to compare them together ! :]