Upgrading my social medias
The tweeks I made to the Mastodon auto-poster I use have started to filter through, and it’s looking a lot better. It‘s way easier to see the difference between blog posts, links and notes and the cards that appear no longer contain ugly looking unrendered markdown. Pretty happy about that.
One of the other things that I think will make a difference is that I’ve decided to change the way I format the linkblog links. The social media sites tend to have post character limits, so the links weren’t fitting. In recent years I had been using the link’s title and a short comment, based around how many javascript newsletters I subscribe to tend to do things. Well that’s not going to work if I’m posting the links to the socials, so the links will now have much smaller amount of text. Still getting used to it.
I updated the aliases and scripts I use to post links, so it’s much quicker to post a link now. Previously I had to rename files after creating them, but that’s all automatic now. It’s all just a oneliner on the command line. Perhaps that will mean I can post more things. We’ll have to see how things go.
The bigger news is that a few hours ago, I got the first version of my RSS to social media auto-poster working. It runs in a Github Action, is built from reusable workflows, and uses the matrix feature to run a separate job for each target destination. It’s not live yet, still quite a bit of things to test, but it’s looking very cool. #