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How Trexel Bot Worked
![a screenshot of trexel bot's twitter profile](https://obscure.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/trexel-bot-profile.png)
Trexel bot was a project I made in February of 2021. It was code which took lines by from the transcripts of the podcast Stellar Firma, specifically Trexel Geistman’s lines. It would process these lines as to randomly generate lines similar to what Trexel said in the podcast. In this blog I’ll explain why I […]
How discord displays images and website previews
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Have you ever wondered how discord displays images and links when you post them in the channel? Discord has a media proxy which will make the request and return the item to the user. This helps reduce the amount of requests to the web server and keeps users safe. When you post a link of […]
Using cloud technology for advanced rickrolling
![a discord embedded video, it looks like mgmt's little dark age but when clicked it goes to rick astley's never going to give you up](https://obscure.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/rick_roll_discord.png)
How you can use advanced cloud technology to trick your friends into watching the internet’s favourite video.