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.

Ooooooh, yeah #goldfrog #mastodon

(SORRY, LOST IMAGE)

Thanks to go-mastodon this was super easy.

@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

RT @tinymediaempire: the netflix navigation system is like if you were walking down the hallway of a gigantic endless hotel just trying to…

@mathowie Strictly Ballroom (1992)

Obviously just including a link in the content of the tweet is not sufficient. 😡

Back towards the IndieWeb: Another aspect to creating my own blogging software: I can finally start implementing some of #indieweb principles I’ve been watching for a while.

One of those is POSSE (Publi

http://173.255.215.158/2020/01/back-towards-the-indieweb

Basics of cross-posting links to blog posts automatically are working. Now to clean up the code and the tweet formatting and push it to the site (tomorrow)

@bitprophet Wish I could claim the term - I got it from @rands

@bitprophet It is! Got a nice builders high going for the time being. We'll see how long it lasts :D

@bitprophet That was one of the motivations for #goldfrog - needed a positive direction for my brain to go

Seriously I’m dumb now, help https://t.co/SsTf76gAaY