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nice post making a page that offers tools to find random content on specific sites seems like a fun idea, maybe as a starting point for an even larger project
Thanks! Yes it does. Let me know if you have any ideas : )
Also randomization of existing long-lived blogs.
Another place where randomization is useful is webcomics. I’ve gone through most of xkcd by just hitting the “Random” button, even tough I would never have the patience to sit through the comics one by one and keep track of how far I’d gotten.
I wish Amazon had a random button. Several years ago my friend wanted to randomly browse Amazon for things and I thought it would be easy to randomly generate URLs for products but I kept getting 404s. Figured I would need to use the API to scoop up product IDs and randomly go through those to randomly browse Amazon.
I wish Amazon had a random button. Several years ago my friend wanted to randomly browse Amazon for things and I thought it would be easy to randomly generate URLs for products but I kept getting 404s. Figured I would need to use the API to scoop up product IDs and randomly go through those to randomly browse Amazon.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k={RANDOM_WORD}
Seems much simpler.
I wish Amazon had a random button. Several years ago my friend wanted to randomly browse Amazon for things and I thought it would be easy to randomly generate URLs for products but I kept getting 404s. Figured I would need to use the API to scoop up product IDs and randomly go through those to randomly browse Amazon.
Alternatively, you could just have a dictionary file and randomly pick a word to search Amazon with: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k={RANDOM_WORD} Seems much simpler.
https://domaingame.benbristow.co.uk/
Basically takes a random word from a dictionary of English words and adds a random extension to the end, checks if the site up and returns the domain else loops until it does.
Found some weird & wonderful stuff through it!
I made a wee microsite that I've never really shared with anyone. I'm half expecting it to go down if I post it here. https://domaingame.benbristow.co.uk/ Basically takes a random word from a dictionary of English words and adds a random extension to the end, checks if the site up and returns the domain else loops until it does. Found some weird & wonderful stuff through it!