[HN Gopher] Tell HN: Five random IndieWeb blog links on your ter...
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Tell HN: Five random IndieWeb blog links on your terminal
Hello HN! I believe some of you might have come across this pretty
interesting post about discovering IndieWeb blogs, one blog at a
time: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43139953> That post is
actually a link to <https://indieblog.page/>, which features an
impressive list of independently maintained personal websites and
blogs with RSS feeds. I was wondering, if instead of discovering
one blog at a time, I could discover five blogs at once, directly
from my terminal! Turns out the website has
<https://indieblog.page/random> which picks a random blog and
redirects you to it. It has daily feeds of N random posts too,
where N = 1, 3, 5, and 10. But if, like me, you'd like to have
five random blogs suggested in your terminal, here is a quick shell
one-liner I'd like to share. It fetches the random blog picker page
five times, cleans up the URLs a bit, and prints them on the
terminal: for _ in $(seq 1 5); do curl -sSI
https://indieblog.page/random | grep location | sed 's/location:
\(.*\).utm_source=.*/\1/'; done Or if you want something to
go in ~/.zshrc, ~/.bashrc, etc., then you could have a tiny shell
function like this: iw5() { for _ in
$(seq 1 5) do curl -sSI
https://indieblog.page/random | grep location |
sed 's/location: \(.*\).utm_source=.*/\1/' done }
Here is an example output: $ iw5
https://justinsimoni.com/colorado-trail-24-hour-backpacking-
challenge-in-may-how-far-can-i-hike/
http://www.iamcal.com/2024-09/10218/
https://dracos.co.uk/wrote/advent-of-code-2024-7/
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2024/12/mind-your-plotting/
http://i.never.nu/personal-foundational-texts/ It helps me to
quickly browse through a set of random suggestions on the terminal,
decide which one I want to visit, right click on it, and select the
"open link" option to open the link in a web browser. Yes, I know
this amounts to judging a post by its link, but sometimes the post
slug (if present) alone sparks enough curiosity to dive deeper, and
it's a quick way to explore new posts without overthinking it. If
you're using this, please be considerate of the indieblog.page web
server. Avoid running it too frequently to prevent putting
unnecessary strain on the server.
Author : susam
Score : 31 points
Date : 2025-02-23 10:55 UTC (12 hours ago)
| darrenf wrote:
| Not specifically trying to play golf, just to let you know that
| `curl -w` is your friend for extracting data from the headers:
| for _ in {1..5} ; do curl -sSw '%header{location}\n'
| https://indieblog.page/random | \ sed -e
| s/.utm_.*$// done
| zimpenfish wrote:
| To save the grep, you can do: sed -Ene
| 's/^location: (.*)?utm.*$/\1/p'
|
| If you've got a newer `curl`, you can just print the header:
| curl -I -s -o /dev/null -w '%header{location}' <url>
|
| But you'll obviously still need the sed if you want to trim off
| the UTM cruft. Unless you want to go the route of `bash`
| substitutions. l="$(curl -I -s -o /dev/null -w
| '%header{location}' <url>)" echo "${l%%?utm*}"
| trollied wrote:
| This thread is a virtual UA meet
| zimpenfish wrote:
| Oh no!
| easterncalculus wrote:
| Sorry, what is UA?
| rednafi wrote:
| Yo, this shit could be a tight JavaScript app with a reactive
| frontend. Y'all geezers still fuckin' with them shell commands?
| /s
| atomic128 wrote:
| Random recent browsing is also the best way to read Hacker News.
|
| It's not addictive, gives you a quick sample of what people are
| thinking about recently, prevents your own biases from narrowing
| your view, etc.
|
| See https://rnsaffn.com/zg2/
|
| Each refresh gives you a random post, plus its parent thread,
| plus some detail about that post's author's history.
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