Monkinetic Weblog

Yup #nobudgetnopay

https://t.co/GaYs4poHU6

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

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.

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

Ooooooh, yeah #goldfrog #mastodon

(SORRY, LOST IMAGE)

Thanks to go-mastodon this was super easy.

I finally got cross-posting to twitter working:

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.

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

https://segment.com/blog/separating-our-data-and-control-planes-with-ctlstore/

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.

Jack Dorsey's original sketch that spawned "twttr":

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

#twitter

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

@agiletortoise oh riiiiihgt, I commented out a bunch of that trash when I was porting the templates. Back to the editor :)

Help: Twitter API shenanigans:

https://t.co/U4hRNerSWU

Obviously my twoot generator needs some more intelligence

@miyagawa That was it... thanks sir!

President Season: I’ve been mostly quiet about the presidential race because… to be honest I’ve been quiet about everything about #politics for a while.

I do want to write a bit about the pro

https://t.co/y0I9Rktqlj

@miyagawa I did have that thought

#indieweb folks: how do you post a tweet via the API with a link back to the original? As in, why didn't this link expand #posse https://t.co/hiXKxJkQUG

Notice POTUS found a way to make nearly triggering a war with #Iran all about Obama's Iran deal

"That lets Iran take advantage of it's large, and untapped...

potential #Oil https://t.co/MsGp0tnpW2