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Daily Digest for Thursday, Jan 9, 2020

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Steve Ivy
Steve Ivy

I finally got cross-posting to twitter working:

/static/images/Screen Shot 2020-01-09 at 10.09.59 AM.png

The Twitter API part was easy, using go-twitter

The hard bits were writing the code to transmogrify a Post struct into reasonably formatted content for the cross-posted tweet, and then getting the template fixes done to provide the right metadata for a given link.

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Steve Ivy

Ooooooh, yeah #goldfrog #mastodon

http://beta.monkinetic.blog/uploads/Screen Shot 2020-01-09 at 11.47.08 AM.png

Thanks to go-mastodon this was super easy.

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Steve Ivy

This resource really helped as I’ve been building #goldfrog.

Golang Templates Cheatsheet

Go’s template system is rich and powerful, and not much at all like systems in #Python, which is why it’s been breaking my brain.

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Steve Ivy

Jack Dorsey’s original sketch that spawned “twttr”:

twttr sketch

God it was heady days before we knew the mess that social media would become.

#twitter

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Steve Ivy

see if this is processed on toot.cafe as well #bloging #mastodon

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Steve Ivy

RT @anildash: yessss gimme the content management angle https://t.co/UJkf4H1q9r

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Steve Ivy

Twitter cross-posting for #goldfrog is technically working, but the templates are not yet rendering the twitter metadata properly, so links are not showing up as nicely as I wish they would.

Next up will be mastodon posting.

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Steve Ivy

RT @QasimRashid: Rep Ilhan literally survived war as a child, lived in a refugee camp for years, & deals w/post-traumatic stress disorder a…

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Steve Ivy
Steve Ivy
Steve Ivy

Blargh, this site.

That page has all the twitter:* metadata fields I can identify as necessary but still no card.

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Steve Ivy

@zempf Oddly, the validator loaded it, but it’s not happening live

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Steve Ivy
Steve Ivy

@zempf Huh. Weird

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Steve Ivy

@zempf Looks like it’s just taking time for the crawler to get to it - it’s showing up now on my original tweet

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Steve Ivy

Goldfrog Progress: Twitter cross-posting working

I finally got cross-posting to twitter working:

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https://t.co/bgND8Wl6h9

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Steve Ivy

RT @apf: 3yo: I need some help 👨🏻: what do you need? 3yo: I need to borrow your big ladder 👨🏻: uh … why? 3yo: to go really high and B…

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Steve Ivy

RT @offby1: What the hell is with websites doing this “login on one page, password on the next” bullshit? It’s maddening on mobile, where i…

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Steve Ivy

RT @RubenGallego: On the house floor we have heard our white female colleagues talk about their PTSD from domestic violence. It’s odd that…

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Steve Ivy

RT @atulkasbekar: An astrophotographer has clicked an exceptional video, wherein we can feel the rotation of the earth

Using a tracking mo…

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Steve Ivy

RT @tribelaw: Memo to Chief Justice Roberts:

Administering a constitutional oath of impartiality to a Senator who has said he will not eve…

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Steve Ivy

RT @claranellist: As a particle physicist with a PhD in the “smallest things in the Universe” I can confirm that this is 100% accurate. htt…

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Steve Ivy

SQLite, Containers, local read db

Reading about Segment’s use of #SQLite inside #containers as a local read DB

https://t.co/CXENNLhdhy

#sqlite

https://t.co/Ro9RjGxxkD

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Steve Ivy

RT @DocOnDev: Merit rating rewards people that do well in the system.

It does not reward attempts to improve the system

  • Dem…

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Steve Ivy

Goldfrog: cross-posting to Mastodon works

Ooooooh, yeah #goldfrog #mastodon

https://t.co/ruJEPNr7oC

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Steve Ivy
Steve Ivy

Golang Templates Cheatsheet

This resource really helped as I’ve been building #goldfrog.

Golang Templates Cheatsheet

#python

https://t.co/tcXZqriOlQ

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Steve Ivy

So, just knocked https://t.co/Vp4zH8eKGe offline messing with DNS (Switching back to @hover)

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Steve Ivy

@hover Hobby internet for the win

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