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Just to prove I am degenerate, I just threw a quick one-line shell script together that beeps when my hit counter triggers: tail -F -n 0 /var/log/visitlog |
by AndrewStephens 1y ago
Just to prove I am degenerate, I just threw a quick one-line shell script together that beeps when my hit counter triggers:
tail -F -n 0 /var/log/visitlog | while read ; do printf '\a' ; done
Now if only somebody would visit my site.
- cubefox 1y agoI picture this like the classic Garfield comic where Jon just stares in increasing frustration at his rotary phone for multiple panels, to finally shout JUST RING ALREADY. (His cat adds some dry remark which I have forgotten)
- yojo 1y agoYou probably already know this, but that comic is substantially improved without the cat. https://garfieldminusgarfield.net/ https://garfieldminusgarfield.net/
- wholinator2 1y agoNow see I'm curious, would it be better if we had no context on what the comic _is supposed_ to be? Or is this only hilarious in comparison to the typical "i hate mondays, how many pieces of flair", type schtick the original goes for. Honestly i think it's the latter, cause after 20 of these or so they kind loose the appeal except for the very occasional guffaw. Though, is that still a higher laugh count than the original? I'm not about to read Garfield to find out
- wredcoll 1y agoI think they mostly work as a derived work / commentary.
- AndrewStephens 1y agoHey, it's not like that at all. I don't have a rotary phone or a cat.
- DeathArrow 1y agoIt beeps when Googlebot visits, too?
- AndrewStephens 1y agoActually no. My hit-counter uses javascript which filters out almost (but not quite) all of the bots. It probably misses some real users that have javascript turned off.
- jofla_net 1y agocool, i just visited. Did you hear it!?
- devrandoom 1y agoIt's https://sheep.horse/ https://sheep.horse/
- rietta 1y agoJust visited!
- nemomarx 1y agooh a game that uses Ink? super cool!
- AndrewStephens 1y agoInk is such a cool language. I worked really hard on that game and entered it into an interactive fiction competition last year. It didn't come close to winning (I didn't expect it to) but people seemed to like it, especially if they grew up watching Star Trek.
- tbalsam 1y agoI did my part and manually reloaded the page about once a second for 5 minutes so that Andrew could get their dev validation beep quota in for the day (unless it's not naive hits, and unique user based, in which case this has a been a fantastically hilarious waste of time).
- eyelidlessness 1y agoI clicked to satisfy the earnest request for attention. I even read some of the blog once I got there!
- rietta 1y agoYour latest post about Google results inspired me to write on this too with a link back to your article! Google Search Results are Increasingly Disappointing as AI Results Are Pushed at https://rietta.com/blog/google-search-results-decline-with-ai-overviews/ https://rietta.com/blog/google-search-results-decline-with-a...
- butlike 1y ago