Forked deadman, a TUI ping monitoring tool, into jokerman for HTTPS monitoring

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Hello, it's me, the incompetent one.
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Background

I was already aware of deadman's existence:
GitHub - upa/deadman: deadman is a curses-based host status checking application using ping
It was time to renew my domain, and although all pages are static and I have SSL certificates, there were times when certbot on FreeBSD failed, preventing renewal. So, I thought it would be nice to have HTTP/S monitoring as well.

I Forked It

GitHub - haturatu/jokerman: jokerman is a curses-based host status checking application using icmp & http
I pretty much forced it together, so the fact that the identifying site title appears in the HOSTNAME part of the TUI display feels a bit off, but I guess it's fine. If a good idea comes to mind, I might fix the UI itself, but I'm a bit hesitant to add more to something that's already simple.

Original Name

It seems it was forked from pingman to deadman, and I suspect the original author is a fan of Jim Jarmusch's films. So, on a whim, I named it jokerman, after a Bob Dylan song from his mid-to-late career.

Missed the Chance to Move Domains

Since I only use domestic registrars, I couldn't find any other good providers to transfer from Onamae, and although I recently tried to migrate to Conoha, which seemed good among them, it looks like it will take some time. It's a lot of work to move 10 domains and all their records by myself, so I hope to do it slowly.

That's all for now. Best regards.

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