README
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gu.ms
miniature-happiness
A Nature friendly initiative which targets zero-mark-up-language and hence zero-parsing resulting in being CPU (and nature)-friendly.
Each gum, in gu.ms is a sticky and short URL that provides some valuable information. For each particular use-case or requirement, if there exists a gum that can provide you the required information, it can be obtained by simply calling the respective tiny URL (gum). These gums provide the information as plain text (without any additional mark-up or metadata). This is particulary useful in scripting/development environment, where the code can make use of the gums URL by calling it and directly assigning the return value to a variable without any further processing required.
gums could be useful for IOT (and connected embedded) devices where the memory footprint is quite small and cannot have scope to carry libraries and/or binaries to carry out certain actions. If there is a gum available for pulling required information, it can help in getting rid of an external library or binary to carry out processing to get the same information.
Some Use-cases
The following is a short list of possible use-cases. Not all might be available yet!
Contributors are welcome to add use-cases and/or gums
System administrator use-cases
| URL | Description |
|---|---|
| gu.ms/ip | your (public) IP address |
| gu.ms/pass | random password generator [default:16 characters] |
| gu.ms/pass/10/an | random password generator with 10 digits and alpha numeric only |
| gu.ms/mx/google.com | the MX record for google.com domain |
| gu.ms/ns/google.com | the nameservers for google.com domain |
| gu.ms/cert/google.com | provides the certificate validity or where the cert has failed |
| gu.ms/man/lsmod | man page of lsmod |
| gu.ms/time | provides current time in GMT |
| gu.ms/json2yaml | convert JSON to YAML (POST) |
| gu.ms/yaml2json | convert YAML to JSON (POST) |
Alias URLs for getting your (public) IP
gu.ms/ip
gu.ms/whatsmyip
gu.ms/whatismyip
gu.ms/myip
Password generator based on the following classes
1. A: Password must contain ONLY uppercase letters (A...Z)
2. a: Password must contain ONLY lowercase letters (a...z)
3. n: Password must contain ONLY digits (or generate a random integer) (0...9)
4. s: Password must contain ONLY symbols (~.../)
5. combinations of above: an, An, As, ans... etc
examples:
| URL | Description |
|---|---|
| gu.ms/pass/16/a | generate 16 digit random text using lower case letters only |
| gu.ms/pass/10/An | generate 10 digit random text using upper & lower case letters only |
| gu.ms/pass/8 | generate 8 digit randon password using upper & lower case letters, numbers & symbols |
Several DNS records of a domain can be queried.
NOTE: There can be multiple records for each of the query and if present, each record will be on its own line
| URL | Description |
|---|---|
| gu.ms/dns/google.com | fetch IP address of google.com |
| gu.ms/mx/example.com | fetch MX records of domain.com |
| gu.ms/ns/example.com | fetch nameservers |
| gu.ms/cname/example.com | fetch cname records |
| gu.ms/srv/example.com/sip/tcp | fetch srv records |
| gu.ms/txt/example.com | fetch txt records |
Reverse DNS
| URL | Description |
|---|---|
| gu.ms/rev/8.8.8.8 | reverse domain name search (IP address to domain name) |
Programmer use-cases
| URL | Description |
|---|---|
| gu.ms/client | provides your browser info |
| gu.ms/ch/c | provides the ascii value of character 'c' |
| gu.ms/bin/93 | display binary |
| gu.ms/hex/45 | display hex |
General use-cases
| URL | Description |
|---|---|
| gu.ms/c/usd/gbp | provides cost of 1 USD in GBP |
| gu.ms/t/edt | provides current time Eastern Time (DST) |
| gu.ms/fc/lon | provides forecast of London |
| gu.ms/cv/mi/m/59 | converts 59 miles to meters |
| gu.ms/fl/a/ba2272 | current status/arrival time of flight ba2272 |
| gu.ms/bmi/100k/165c | BMI calculator |
Use-cases for fun
| URL | Description |
|---|---|
| gu.ms/aa/hello | hello converted to ascii art |
| gu.ms/morse/hello | hello converted to morse code |
Contributors
Contributions in ideas, new tiny URL suggestions, code contributions are MOST WELCOME!!
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