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Entries tagged twitter in 2022

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Mastodon is just blogs

And that’s great. It’s also the return of Google Reader!

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3:48 pm / 8th November 2022 / blogging, googlereader, twitter, mastodon, activitypub, fediverse, sidekiq

It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

Elon Musk laid off about half of Twitter this morning. There are many terrible stories emerging about how this went down, but one that particularly struck me was that he laid off the entire accessibility team. For me this feels like a microcosm of the whole situation. Twitter’s priorities are no longer even remotely aligned with my own.

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5:32 am / 5th November 2022 / twitter, mastodon, fediverse

Building a Covid sewage Twitter bot (and other weeknotes)

I built a new Twitter bot today: @covidsewage. It tweets a daily screenshot of the latest Covid sewage monitoring data published by Santa Clara county.

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2:49 am / 18th April 2022 / projects, twitter, datasette, weeknotes, githubactions, covid19, sqliteutils

SQLite Happy Hour—a Twitter Spaces conversation about three interesting projects building on SQLite

Yesterday I hosted SQLite Happy Hour. my first conversation using Twitter Spaces. The idea was to dig into three different projects that were doing interesting things on top of SQLite. I think it worked pretty well, and I’m curious to explore this format more in the future.

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10:01 pm / 23rd March 2022 / sqlite, talks, twitter, datasette, litestream, benjohnson, geoffreylitt

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