imagehose

imagehose

Uses text-to-image generative AI to create an ephemeral "photo feed" of the Bluesky firehose.

See it at imagehose.net

Running

Behavior is controlled via environment variables, see Usage below for details.

$ npm start

Or with docker:

$ docker build -t imagehose .
$ docker run ... imagehose

Usage

Environment varibles

Any not marked as required have reasonable defaults.

Variable name	Description	Req'd?
IMAGEHOSE_EXPECT_IMG_GEN_TIME_S	The rough expected image generation time: it's not tracked and accounted for explicitly, instead this simple fudge is used. Will be subtracted from IMAGEHOSE_ARTIFICAL_DELAY_S	No
IMAGEHOSE_PLOT_DATA_RETAIN_X_MORE_SAMPLES	Retain this many times more samples for statistics than are retained for posts themselves (IMAGEHOSE_POST_COUNT)	No
IMAGEHOSE_PLOT_X_PRCNT_MIN_AVERAGES	Percentage of total samples retained (IMAGEHOSE_PLOT_DATA_RETAIN_X_MORE_SAMPLES * IMAGEHOSE_POST_COUNT) to use in the windowed average calculations.	No
IMAGEHOSE_POST_COUNT	Number of posts to retain before deleting the oldest.	No
IMAGEHOSE_ARTIFICAL_DELAY_S	Time, in seconds, to wait between each generation. Candidate posts are collected during this wait period.	No
IMAGEHOSE_WAIT_FOR_ATLEAST	Number of posts to wait for as candidates before first generation, after the process is started fresh.	No
IMAGEHOSE_ADDL_FILTERS_JSON	A JSON list of additional filter words to append to the profanity list generated from @dsojevic/profanity-list	No
IMAGEHOSE_IMG_GEN_URL_PREFIX	The full URL prefix, including the token & prompt=, of an img-gen-cf instance.	YES
IMAGEHOSE_MODEL_URL	The text-to-image model's URL	YES
IMAGEHOSE_MODEL_NAME	The text-to-image model's name	YES
IMAGEHOSE_PAGE_AUTO_REFRESH_S	How often the generated pages are set to auto-refresh	No
IMAGEHOSE_WSS_SERVER_PORT	Websocket server port	No
IMAGEHOSE_FQDN	Host fully-qualified domain name with protocol	YES