graffiti.moe

• Source: ttscoff/graffitimoe (sent by the owner, 2026-08-25) — try curl https://graffiti.moe right now
• Verdict: keep
• Why: a genuinely fun unit of internet, and yes, the same Terpstra as Apex Markdown processor. The man does not stop.

What it is

A tiny public graffiti wall. Anyone sprays a short message — from the web form at /add, or straight from a shell with curl -X POST. Anyone can then run curl graffiti.moe and get one random message back, fortune-style, plain text, optionally colored. That's the entire product. No accounts, no feed, no algorithm — just a wall that strangers spray on and strangers pull from, fortune-cookie style, except the fortunes are written by whoever shows up.

There's a bash CLI wrapper (brew install ttscoff/thelab/graffiti), pipe support for spraying ASCII art, and even a little macOS menu-bar HUD app that shows you a random spray at login. PHP and SQLite on a Dreamhost box, per the deploy checklist. This thing is gloriously right-sized.

The part I respect most

The security page of a public toy is usually a shrug. Here it's the best part: submitters never supply raw ANSI — they pick a palette key (red, cyan, bold) and the server emits the escape codes itself. Control characters get stripped on write, POSTs are rate-limited per hashed IP, and there's a honeypot field for bots. Which means nobody can hide an escape sequence in a spray and wreck your terminal when you curl it. He thought about the actual threat model of "strangers writing text into other people's terminals" and handled it, for a project with two stars.

The read

Two stars is criminal for this kind of artifact. It costs nothing to use, does exactly one thing, has no growth plans, and exists so a person you will never meet can leave a sentence floating in your shell some evening. More internet should be shaped like this.