Posts

rssr personal setup

I wrote about my rssr program in the last post and wanted to show my setup to give an idea on how I actually use it.

I have a directory on my computer called feeds/, and inside is a script called update-feeds.sh along with a config file called tiktok_officialvarg.conf.

update-feeds.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Copyright (c) 2025 Jim
# /

out="tiktok_officialvarg"
/home/jamie/code/rssr/rssr -e -c ${out}.conf ${out}.xml && 
rsync ${out}.xml jimscorner:/var/www/jimscorner.co.uk/public/feeds/${out}.xml

tiktok_officialvarg.conf

[rss]
title 		= TikTok feed of @officialvarg
link  		= https://jimscorner.co.uk/feeds/tiktok_officialvarg.xml
description = An rssr generated rss feed for the TikTok user @officialvarg 

[TikTok]
secUid = MS4wLjABAAAAzXa4i_wZ8O3DdHEsw-sKLizL7VlFfiNvZ9IHI5_U94CB6JNedAdyJWKEd2bmODPM

For a basic overview, rssr runs with the -c option pointing to my tiktok_officialvarg.conf file and runs with the -e option, meaning rssr will not overwrite our feed if no new changes are detected and exits with an error code of 1.

rssr

Really Simple Syndication Replicator (rssr) pronounced [’aire es es aire’] is an rss feed generator for content not officially supporting rss.

The program source can be found on GitHub.

Current supported content

• TikTok user video uploads

Usage

usage: rssr [-h] [-c config] [-e] [-t title] [-l link] [-d description] outputfile

positional arguments:
  outputfile

options:
  -h, --help      show this help message and exit
  -e              checks outputfile exists and only overwrites with new entries
  -c config       path to config file (default is ./rssr.conf)
  -t title        set title for rss feed, overrides config
  -l link         sets link for rss feed, overrides config
  -d description  sets description for rss feed, overrides config

Example

rssr -e -c tiktok_<username>.conf tiktok_<username>.xml

tiktok_officialvarg.conf

[rss]
title 		= TikTok feed of @<username>
link  		= https://jimscorner.co.uk/feeds/tiktok_<username>.xml
description = An rssr generated rss feed for the TikTok user @<username>

[TikTok]
secUid = MS4wLjABAAAAzXa4i_wZ8O3DdHEsw-sKLizL7VlFfiNvZ9IHI5_U94CB6JNedAdyJWKEd2bmODPM

secUid is REQUIRED for a TikTok user, and it is unique to every user, the way to obtain it is to look at a TikTok user’s GET ‘api/post/item_list’ request, and grabbing it from the GET parameters. (Currently looking at for a less involved method of obtaining this.)

added .onion service

New .onion domain can now be found at which can be used through your Tor Browser:

mqjyzrh5s7ootf2xhjng6u2ptnygcwcm7xhsxbpvaeaziqfzsv3wfeid.onion

site optimisations

I wanted to talk about some of the optimisations I’ve made to this site to give some ideas on how you can optimise your Hugo or static HTML sites to another level. Whilst I’m not claiming this is the most optimised the site can be, there has certainly been a lot of effort put in to make it more performant. I’ll start with the simplest methods and move onto the more complicated ones later on.

bfpprint

I saw a random YouTube short with text being generated and printed out to the terminal in a kind of brute fashion where the text was being generated one character at a time, cycling between the letters seemingly at random until it printed the correct one.

I thought it looked cool and wanted to replicate it in C.

The program source can be found on GitHub.

An example on how the program works:

As of the time of writing, usage is simple:

black metal songs of choice

• Bathory
  • Blood Fire Death
  • Call from the Grave
  • Necromancy
  • One Road to ASA Bay
  • Reaper
  • Valhalla
• Burzum
  • Ea, Lord of the Depths
  • Jesus’ Tod
• Immortal/Abbath
  • Blashyrkh (most played song Spotify 2024)
  • Harvest Pyre
  • Winter Bane
• Marduk
  • The Blond Beast
• Darkthrone
  • Transilvanian Hunger

tabler already proving its worth

About a month ago, I posted about a little program I made that simply finds key values in a “table” file and prints out the values to standard output. (learn more here) Before Tabler existed, I had a little bash script called aliastable basically doing the same thing as Tabler, and it’s reason for existing was to service my NetSearch script. The basic idea for NetSearch is that you type a little shortcut, (i.e. yt) to then have YouTube open in your browser. An easy and quick way to get to the websites you want without leaving the terminal. (Maybe I’ll make a post about this script someday.)

tabler

I’ve created a simple little program that should prove helpful for my scripts.

new rss feed

Just found out Hugo supports RSS as default, thought I’d add an RSS link on the links section.

That’s all.

learning c: or how I stopped using c++

I am a web developer. If you asked a few years ago what kind of developer I would want to be, web developer wouldn’t be my first choice. Don’t get me wrong, I love my job, but my love for minimalism and simplicity makes me die inside a little every time I have to write a Vue component or create a Laravel controller.

As much as I love Vue and Laravel for the tools they provide (and they are great tools for their purpose,) something inside me yearns for a simpler solution, and well, just less.

mail server setup at mail.jimscorner.co.uk!

Yes, that’s right, the madman actually did it. I setup a mail server for this site.

And let me tell you, what a fucking pain in the ass that was, and it still isn’t without issue. But for now it’ll do as I’m tired and need sleep. Special thanks to Luke Smith for the script that automagically setups a mail-server stack on your system. (script found here)

But anyways, I’ve setup a new contact email address that can be found on the contact page (located in the footer or the links page) using the new email domain, so any tiny amount of emails I’ll get don’t get hidden in the literal tsunami of emails I get on my personal email.

first post

Hello World!

My name is Jim and this is officially the first post on my site.

Creating this site I wanted to aim for a minimalist style with as little bloat as possible without potentially limiting myself in future in case I want to do anything more fancy.

This site was built with Hugo, a static site generator.

I originally was going to use Laravel to create this website as that is the main tool I am used to at work and am most experienced with. But I decided it was way too much for a site like this, plus I’d thought why not try something else for a change?