I have a 3-letter domain that I use as my personal playground (think "xyz.com"). It features:
- One-click anonymous upload of text, clipboard, and files. So from any computer, I can visit xyz.com + ctrl+v to upload the clipboard, write notes to myself, drag and drop a file, etc. It's a risky feature, but there's nothing to attract attention and you don't even get a URL back.
- Authenticated sessions see a list of uploaded files, with buttons to copy link, download, delete, or generate QR code. There's also real-time notifications for each upload.
- Simplified RSS feed reader[1]. It scans my feeds every 10 minutes, and displays the URLs of new items. It has one button, that opens all URLs in new tabs and marks them as read.
- A Server-sent-events channel[2], and a UI that displays visitors in real time. The channel allows me to send redirects/file downloads to any visitor, so I'm constantly asking people to visit xyz.com when I need to hand them something digitally. Visitors are color coded with randomized backgrounds for identification.
- Youtube video downloader (powered by yt-dlp), along with audio extractor and pitch+speed correction for songs.
- Authentication is by approval from an already authenticated session (usually my phone). In the worst case I can edit the text file via SSH.
I add or remove widgets according to my needs. At one point I had chat integration with Facebook+WhatsApp+Telegram (got me banned from WhatsApp), radio player (replaced with Spotify), and even balances by scraping my bank accounts, credit cards, and Steam (removed after a bank started asking questions).
The whole thing runs in custom pair of Go and Python servers, developed slowly over the last ten years, and I use it multiple times a day. Feels like a digital tree house, messy but fun and useful.
[1]: https://github.com/boppreh/feeder
[2]: https://github.com/boppreh/server-sent-events
Edit: people have found it and started spamming uploads of "HELLO FROM HN". One IP looks Swedish. Well, Hi! But I'm taking it down for a few days to avoid tempting more people.
And shoutout to the Go team, that server has been rock solid and 100% backwards compatible over the past ten years.
- One-click anonymous upload of text, clipboard, and files. So from any computer, I can visit xyz.com + ctrl+v to upload the clipboard, write notes to myself, drag and drop a file, etc. It's a risky feature, but there's nothing to attract attention and you don't even get a URL back.
- Authenticated sessions see a list of uploaded files, with buttons to copy link, download, delete, or generate QR code. There's also real-time notifications for each upload.
- Simplified RSS feed reader[1]. It scans my feeds every 10 minutes, and displays the URLs of new items. It has one button, that opens all URLs in new tabs and marks them as read.
- A Server-sent-events channel[2], and a UI that displays visitors in real time. The channel allows me to send redirects/file downloads to any visitor, so I'm constantly asking people to visit xyz.com when I need to hand them something digitally. Visitors are color coded with randomized backgrounds for identification.
- Youtube video downloader (powered by yt-dlp), along with audio extractor and pitch+speed correction for songs.
- Authentication is by approval from an already authenticated session (usually my phone). In the worst case I can edit the text file via SSH.
I add or remove widgets according to my needs. At one point I had chat integration with Facebook+WhatsApp+Telegram (got me banned from WhatsApp), radio player (replaced with Spotify), and even balances by scraping my bank accounts, credit cards, and Steam (removed after a bank started asking questions).
The whole thing runs in custom pair of Go and Python servers, developed slowly over the last ten years, and I use it multiple times a day. Feels like a digital tree house, messy but fun and useful.
[1]: https://github.com/boppreh/feeder
[2]: https://github.com/boppreh/server-sent-events
Edit: people have found it and started spamming uploads of "HELLO FROM HN". One IP looks Swedish. Well, Hi! But I'm taking it down for a few days to avoid tempting more people.
And shoutout to the Go team, that server has been rock solid and 100% backwards compatible over the past ten years.