2026/04/20 #

Twitter blocking my auto-poster

There were two issues getting all the gears in my blogging setup working again after a few months of not posting. Both related to the social media auto-poster Github action workflow that runs every day to post links to various social medias to new posts on the blog. Bluesky and Mastodon still worked perfectly, but Nostr and Twitter were both erroring.

I figured out the Nostr error quite quickly. Looks like some of the relays I had been using to post messages had gone offline. I updated to a more recent list of relays and posts began flowing again.

But the Twitter blockage was much more involved. I spent the morning navigating the quite complex developer portal, and regenerating an absurd amount of API keys and secrets and bearer tokens, and deleting my app and recreating it. Still authentication errors. Eventually went to the billing page and there was a note that said free tier accounts can no longer access the API.

Ok well I guess Twitter doesn't value my content much. Looks like, for the moment at least, none of my posts will be flowing through Twitter.

Kind of disapointing. #

Really really weird connectivity issues

I'm having the strangest connectivity issues all of a sudden. Some web browsers on my machine can't load any web pages at all. Others can load some pages, but not others.

Trying to troubleshoot it with the help of some LLMs but of course the connectivity issues mean it's very difficult to do anything at all because the sessions keep disconecting.

I haven't installed any software or made any configuration changes recenrtly.

Anyway just posting this in case the world is about to end or something. I hope not. #

Connectivity restored

Well after several about an hour troubleshooting, the conclusion from the LLM was that the networking stack on my laptop was hosed.

I rebooted and everything seems to be working again. I can‘t even remember that happening a single time before on this machine.

Kind of strange it should happen right after my first blog posts in several months. Such is life sometimes. And every time also. #

Today’s links:

  • Elon: "You can access the X API via OpenClaw" - I use Github Actions :( x.com #

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