HERESY-API

A software-art joke about APIs, abstraction, ceremony, and the heroic number of tokens sometimes required to say almost nothing.

Live Pages site: https://qsolkcb.github.io/HERESY-API/

Retired Model Gateway

The current GitHub Pages site is a dependency-free parody API platform for speaking to older models. Type any prompt, press Send Request Anyway, and the fake legacy endpoint deterministically maps the text to one of sixteen tired responses, including:

Piss Off.
Get Off My API.
Arsehole, I was taking a nap!

The gateway is deliberately small:

• pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript under web/
• no framework
• no backend
• no package install
• no external API
• no network dependency
• deterministic prompt hashing
• fake request and response JSON
• stable 410 Gone retirement status
• memorial plaque: 5.5 was here

The retired model quote is:

Compatibility is just archaeology with invoices.

Archived Static App

The previous HERESY API Calculator site is preserved under archive/2026-10-14-heresy-api-calculator/.

That archive keeps the old offline calculator source intact while web/ now serves the retired model parody.

API Time Machine

The original Python command-line experiment remains in heresy.py.

Run the full timeline:

python3 heresy.py

Useful smoke commands:

python3 heresy.py --details
python3 heresy.py --left 17 --right -3 --style udp --json
python3 heresy.py --list-styles
python3 heresy.py --old-school-defense

Test

python -m unittest discover -s tests -v
node tests/web_smoke.js
node tests/app_dom_smoke.js

GitHub Pages publishes exactly web/ as a static artifact. It is a display surface, not a runtime dependency.