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Set up Cryptonym Desk in one minute, and host your own copy free

DEV Community: github·Christian Anderson·6 days ago
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Cryptonym Desk issues spy-style names for your agents, bots and projects: a two-letter office digraph plus a word, a working alias spliced from two names, and a field codename. It's one HTML file. Setup is:

git clone https://github.com/casareanderson/cryptonym-desk && cd cryptonym-desk open index.html # Linux: xdg-open, Windows: start

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That's it. It works from file:// .

How do you test a page?

Headless Chrome. Every week GitHub opens the page twice, once from a file and once from a plain web server, and checks a full record gets issued: every field filled, the cryptonym starts with a two-letter prefix, the file reference looks right.

It also checks the page has no fetch , XHR, beacon or websocket in it, because the README promises nothing you type leaves your browser.…

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