Internet Junk Drawer

A tiny public corner of the internet for experiments, odd little ideas, and files that did not need to exist.

What Is This?

This repository has no product roadmap, startup angle, or serious mission.

It is a deliberately random public repo:

• a place to ship weird mini things
• a place to keep internet-shaped leftovers
• a place to make and publish something just because it feels funny

What Is Inside

Right now this repo contains a small static website that behaves like a mini cabinet of digital curiosities.

It currently has:

• a generator for strange "internet artifacts"
• a local archive shelf that remembers your favorite relics
• an "artifact of the day" that can refresh automatically
• an absurd guestbook powered by GitHub issues
• a visual layout that feels more like an odd poster than a default landing page

Open index.html in a browser and start spinning the drawer.

Why It Exists

Because not every repo needs a reason.

Suggested Repo Names

If you want to rename the GitHub repo before publishing it, these fit the vibe:

• internet-junk-drawer
• public-side-quest
• tiny-weird-website
• unnecessary-artifacts

Repo Vibe

The best version of this repo is probably one that stays a little messy, a little charming, and slightly harder to justify every time it gets updated.

Automation

The repo now includes two GitHub Actions workflows:

• .github/workflows/deploy-pages.yml deploys the site to GitHub Pages
• .github/workflows/artifact-of-the-day.yml refreshes the daily artifact once per day

The guestbook works through GitHub issues instead of a custom backend:

• the site opens a prefilled issue for visitors
• the wall fetches recent guestbook entries from the public GitHub API

Optional Next Moves

• let GitHub Pages publish it as a proper tiny public site
• let strangers add increasingly questionable guestbook notes
• keep the daily artifact weird enough to deserve the automation
• keep adding features that are delightful before they are useful
• keep the README cleaner than the contents

Structure

• index.html - the public page
• artifact-engine.js - the shared artifact generator used by the browser and the daily script
• styles.css - the visual system and layout
• script.js - the artifact generator, guestbook client, and local shelf logic
• data/artifact-of-the-day.js - the generated daily artifact payload
• scripts/update-artifact-of-the-day.cjs - the script that refreshes the daily artifact data
• .github/workflows/ - the Pages and daily automation workflows
• favicon.svg - the tiny drawer icon
• LICENSE - MIT