In the Tildes Minecraft weekly thread a little while back, there was some discussion about self-hosting images. I've finally done the thing, and figured I'd share the results.

The primary goal is to make something as simple as possible: I don't really care about galleries or albums, or different file formats, or fancy automatic deduplication etc. I just want to grab an image and throw it up on a link that I can share.

I do care about easily importing images from various sources, and stripping image metadata.

The simplest solution I came up with that addresses all these while requiring minimal changes to my existing self-hosted setup is this:

• Serve a directory of static files from /var/www/i.allemangd.dev on a subdomain with a new server {} block in my existing nginx config.
• Upload images to that directory via scp. Then access is controlled by SSH and VPN and I don't need to worry about authentication.
• Convert everything to webp and strip metadata with imagemagick.
• Don't worry about albums or galleries with the automated tool. I can manually edit the folder structure or rename via ssh/sshfs, but the automated tool just dumps images to a flat directory of $(uuidgen).webp.
• Pull from the clipboard via xclip by default (I only need to support one platform), or via stdin, path, or url on the command line.
• Everything in a short autoloded zsh function, and configure destination host/dir/url by environment variables in zshrc.

The code is at https://git.allemangd.dev/me/imup. @creesch, @Durinthal, @hamstergeddon, @trim: you all participated in my call for recommendations, so have a ping here in case you're interested in the solution I've landed on.

So, with all that, I'll move some of my minecraft screenshots off of imgur via this tool:

$ imup \
  'https://i.imgur.com/ecokmB1.png' 'https://i.imgur.com/UNs1mlr.jpeg' 'https://i.imgur.com/83ChnpP.png' \
  2026-01-20_22.15.08.png  2026-01-21_23.06.18.png \
  --tag mc

I expect the two workflows from here on will be one of:

• Navigate to my minecraft screenshots directory and execute imup $(date -I)_*.png to share recent updates on the weekly thread. Now just run imup *.png.
• Prt Sc; "Copy to Clipboard"; imup; Paste the url.

Some adjustments I might make in the future are:

• Instead of naming the file by a uuid, name the file by a hash. This way reuploading files won't explode the size of that directory - my "weekly update" thing could just be imup *.png in the screenshots directory. This is done.

• Synchronize via rsync instead of scp. It should be faster. Instead I now synchronize via temporary sshfs. I think rsync in principle could be faster but this is easier.

• Set up an sshfs mount with this connection so my minecraft screenshots folder links directly to the static files, like https://i.allemangd.dev/mc/<date>.png. Then no manual commands are necessary. I'm a little hesitant to do that, though, since I'm not sure what happens if I put sshfs to offline host in my fstab, and probably not all my screenshots need to be public. I think I will not do this for fear of accidentally leaking something via an automatically-uploaded file in that directory. Better to be explicit.

UPDATE: I've rewritten the thing in Python. I now name the files by hash and have a simple linking scheme for "tags". Installation is as easy as uv tool install git+https://git.allemangd.dev/me/imup, and I can carry my config around in dotfiles.

So, earlier today i read about Bagels (https://github.com/EnhancedJax/Bagels), which describes itself as "Powerful expense tracker that lives in your terminal". Not only is it really cool looking, but seems quite useful! I'm really loving the increased TUI-centric command line apps that are becoming more popular; well, it seems like they've become more popular, but i admit to not having any hard data/stats to back up my impression. However...As much as i love the command line/terminal/CLI....my daily workflows simply do not necessitate being in/using the terminal. (I only need such terminal apps on a rare basis, or i simply use old school unix/linux cli tools.) I mean, especially while on my mobile, there's not that much that i need to do from the command line. (Yes, i know there are mobile app terminal emulators, i'm simply saying that i have very little use for my daily needs.)

So, besides the expense tracking that Bagel cites, I'm very curious to learn what other common, daily sorts of use-cases and workflows do people here have that could benefit from leveraging terminal/command line apps? Please share!

I made a little CLI app for backing up my tildes comments / topics.

$ pip install xklb
$ library tildes -h
usage: library tildes DATABASE USER

    Backup tildes.net user comments and topics

        library tildes tildes.net.db xk3

    Without cookies you are limited to the first page. You can use cookies like this:
        https://github.com/rotemdan/ExportCookies
        library tildes tildes.net.db xk3 --cookies ~/Downloads/cookies-tildes-net.txt

It creates a SQLITE file with HTML text in one of the columns. Nothing super fancy. Let me know what you think?

And no, I'm not talking about git. I'm looking for a tool that I can use in scripts to automate non-git tasks on GitHub such as creating new repositories, drafting releases, uploading assets to a release, etc.

I started dipping my toes into gh, GitHub's official cli tool, but when I created a repository it immediately cloned it, which is not what I want. I know I can just rm -rf the repo but ideally the tool I use would do only what I tell it and nothing more.

Reading the docs for hub, it might do what I want, although I have some reservations about the project after reading this post written by the developer: https://mislav.net/2020/01/github-cli/

I've also come across git-hub, which doesn't support creating repos AFAICT, and git-spindle, which doesn't support uploading assets.

Are there any other command line GitHub clients I should consider?

Which one do you use? What's your experience with it been like?

Inspired by this post, I was wondering what RSS feeds you all subscribe to and how you read them.

Here are mine:
http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/topNews
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/feeds/rss/headlines
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/feeds/rss/world
http://feeds.nature.com/nature/rss/current

I'm just started using Newsboat, a CLI RSS reader, to read in a few feeds (Reuters was one of them :( ) and it's pretty refreshing to get a text-based newsfeed with no distraction. Though, the feeds I'm subscribed to only give me a brief blurb of the news...

Here's the ruby gem page and here's the github. Right now it comes with a command line browser that can browse the front page and group pages with no sorting options, and you can view the contents of a topic (link or text) aswell as the comments. The methods defined in lib/tilde-scraper/api.rb can be used to scrape tildes pages into Group, Page, Topic, and Comment objects.

Right now it's super basic and messy, but I figured if anyone was interested in it it would be the people here.