ljlatest(6x)

📦 version 5.45, in ubuntu jammy

💖 ljlatest 💖

okay bestie, so this one's a page from the XScreenSaver manual — it's ljlatest(6x), and it is exactly the kind of chaotic little script you'd expect to find lurking in there. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

ljlatest — prints the most recent public posts on livejournal.com. that's it, that's the whole job. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ljlatest [--verbose] [--columns N]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so the ljlatest script goes and reads the most recent public posts made to livejournal.com, and then prints them on stdout. but before it does that, it does a rudimentary little HTML-to-plain-text glow-up on them. nothing fancy. just enough so it doesn't look like soup. ✨

and here's the tea: this script is literally just a wrapper around

xscreensaver-text \
  --url http://www.livejournal.com/stats/latest-rss.bml

that's the whole thing. 🫶

as of XScreenSaver 4.21, you can just use use above URL in the "Text URL" field on the "Advanced" tab in xscreensaver-demo(1). iykyk. 💜

💀 BUGS 💀

okay so. this program makes it seem like morons have invaded your screen saver. not my words bestie, that's literally what the manpage says. 😭

also the output is always ISO-8859-1, regardless of locale. no cap. every single time. 🌈

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

the whole squad's here fr fr 🧚

Copyright © 2003, 2005 by Jamie Zawinski. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

(so basically: go off, do whatever, just don't remove the receipts. 🎀)

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 30-Aug-2003. iconic behavior honestly. 👑

and that's a wrap on the ljlatest(6x) page bestie!! it's from X Version 11, version 5.45, dated 08-Dec-2020. go forth and let livejournal posts vibe on your screensaver, no cap. mwah 💖✨🌸

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