My own personal GIF library

There’s this incredible website called bukk.it that I’ve been sporadically visiting for years. It’s a directory of images and I love the surprise of scrolling through the filenames looking for things that pop out at me and then laughing out loud at what appears.

bukk.it is maintained by internet legend Ethan Marcotte he’s blogged about it before. Over the years I’ve had some of the gifs saved to my desktop, synced in Dropbox and pinned in GimmieBar (RIP).

Some are ingrained in my memory, like bukk.it/deploy.gif. I drop them in my work slack from time-to-time. But sometimes my memory fails me and I cannot remember the filename for the ones I’m looking for.

So I’ve thrown something together using Cloudflare’s R2 object storage for the images and a Turso SQLite DB so I can add a little more metadata and query them.

I’ve cobbled together a CLI script that uploads them to Cloudflare and inserts a DB row, so I can easily add new ones from my computer.

Then I’ve made a little index page of them all so I can see them in a nice big grid. Every website needs a nice url and I was surpised to see that gif.land was available (and cheap) so of course I bought it. Here’s how it looks

It’s silly but I love it.

Thanks again to Ethan for bukk.it, without which I’d never have thought what if… and enjoyed hacking this together.