ALTBOD_

broadcasting illegally* from somewhere inconvenient

Chaos
but make it
deploy.

Hello, I?m Bod. Eccentric tech creature, chaos gremlin and enthusiastic maker of things the internet may not have strictly requested.

Certified
away from
home
// the important bit

A website with terrible boundaries.

AltBod is a digital side quest by Ian Boddison. It exists for experiments, strange ideas and tiny acts of technical theatre.

There is one deliciously impractical constraint: this site may only be worked on away from home, using a mobile phone. Because comfort is the enemy of lore.

// field log 001

Birth of a small menace.

15.08.26Somewhere between
Nuneaton, Rugby
and London

A domain was bought. The trains immediately objected.

  • Coventry said no.Cancelled trains turned a simple trip to Euston into Nuneaton, Northampton, another cancellation and a hopeful crawl from Rugby. In the middle of it all, altbod.live was purchased. Priorities.
  • Hosting, but make it railway.Reading and Duolingo: complete. NecroscopE ticket: acquired. Hosting: created on the Grant Genie server. DNS: choosing violence.
  • The internet relented.DNS finally behaved and an SSL certificate appeared. Mail and subdomains were declared Future Bod?s problem.
  • A website assembled by thumbs.AGENTS.md, the site overview and its deranged voice were created through NMM. SSH keys were borrowed from another site, the mobile control point was wired up and ChatGPT Remote confirmed the tunnel worked.
  • The Plesk page was exorcised.Notes escaped Google Keep, Codex received permission to become unhinged and this small digital menace opened its eyes.

Tonight?s field assignment: Slimelight in London. Dancing until 6am, followed by the traditional Euston-floor vigil until the first train home at 7:30am. Glamour is a spectrum.

// current vitals

The machine is awake.

bod@elsewhere:~$ inspect reality

[OK] domain acquired

[OK] holding page exorcised

[OK] chaos gremlin operational

bod@elsewhere:~$ await next bad idea