What a great idea! Ones server could serve the latest tweet, or current location, anything. I think there are a lot of risks, sanitizing input from “random” hosts mostly, there’s a chance that it could hurt your server when retrieved/stored or the client when it’s rendered. I wonder if you converted the curl results to a small gif, would that help or hurt the experience? One could run the conversion code in some sandbox, like FaaS.

The text stored "should" be sanitized by the framework I'm using. Hopefully nothing funny happens.

Very neat! This reminds me of the finger protocol[0]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)

I used to finger John carmack for updates all the time when I was in high school.

Interesting read

What are you using this for? It's really cool, but I'm struggling to find a use

Currently trying to get friends to use it, and eventually having a dashboard that I can just leave open in a tab and check once in a while to get a glimpse of things happening. Not sure if that'll work though.

This is really cool.

Thanks

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