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I made this because I have hundreds of images of myself and what I have been doing from BeReal.
I stopped using it because the company got big and evil (booo), so I requested all my data (images) and I (will soon) request them to remove that data.
But, for the meanwhile, I've been screwing around with it. I made a timelapse, but also fun is a random image picker.
I put all the images on my server, and made a very simple CGI script:
#!/bin/bash
file=$( (cd /var/www/; find images/ -type f -not -name "*index.html" \
| sort --random-sort | head -n1) )
echo "HTTP/1.1 302 Found"
echo "Location: /${file}"
echo ""
now I can access /.../random.cgi and it redirects me to an image, served by nginx. Sweet.
I would like to write a bigger blog about CGI scripts in future.