By @edent · mastodon twitter · 2 comments · 550 words · read ~137 times.
I remember seeing the original "A new decentralized microblogging platform" on HackerNews back in October 2016. A few weeks later, I joined - becoming the 7,112th user. As the years went on, my use of it waxed and waned. I started cross-posting to both Mastodon and Twitter. Gradually, I started spending more time on the […]
Continue reading →By @edent · api security twitter · 2 comments · 650 words · read ~168 times.
My CDN just asked me for all my Twitter API keys... WTF? This would give them complete access to my app's Twitter account, the ability to send and receive messages, and anything else that my API key allows. Giving them - or anyone - the entire set of credentials would be a very bad idea. […]
Continue reading →By @edent · blogging ethics fediverse mastodon twitter WebMention WordPress · 20 comments · 700 words · read ~354 times.
This blog uses WebMention technology. If you write an article on your website and mention one of my blog posts, I get a notification. That notification can then be published as a comment. It usually looks something like this: This means readers of my post can see where it has been mentioned around the web. […]
Continue reading →By @edent · a11y accessibility mastodon MastodonAPI NaBloPoMo twitter · 2 comments · 350 words · read ~165 times.
Because I don't trust Alan, the Hyperprat who now runs Twitter, I decided to download my Twitter archive before setting my account to dormant. About a decade ago, I wrote about how the Twitter archive works and where it is deficient. Things have got better, but there are still annoying limitations. For example, Hannah Kolbeck […]
Continue reading →By @edent · facebook HTML meta metadata ogp standards twitter · 7 comments · 500 words · read ~1,208 times.
Facebook Meta - like many other tech titans - has institutional Shiny Object Syndrome. It goes something like this: Launch a product to great fanfare Spend a few years hyping it as ✨the future✨ Stop answering emails and pull requests If you're lucky, announce that the product is abandoned but, more likely, just forget about […]
Continue reading →By @edent · spam twitter · 1 comment · 500 words · read ~4,991 times.
Back in June, I noticed a pretty insidious piece of Twitter spam. The "twoo.fun" website was claiming that it could tell you who visited your Twitter profile. That's pretty enticing! It's what LinkedIn uses to drive its premium product. Perhaps it would tell me if a potential employer was looking at my profile? Or if […]
Continue reading →By @edent · arg Social Media twitter · 4 comments · 1,100 words · read ~290 times.
If you hang around on a social network long enough, you'll find the same tropes being repeated again and again. So, I thought I'd document some of the ones that I personally find annoying. This blog post is an extension of my moderately popular Twitter thread - with a bit more detail about why they […]
Continue reading →By @edent · ar Augmented Reality HTML5 TapIntoTwitter twitter Virtual Reality vr · 450 words · read ~105 times.
I've recently launched TweeView - a new way to visualise Twitter conversation threads in 2D and 3D. Sadly, I don't have a Virtual Reality system - feel free to buy me one! - but I have the next best thing. A web browser! Demo! Using the awesome power of A-Frame, here's a demo of how […]
Continue reading →By @edent · goodbots twitter · 6 comments · 350 words · read ~292 times.
I run lots of automated Twitter accounts - "bots" in common parlance. But there's no way for people to know that these are automated accounts. This leads to slightly odd situations where people try to have conversations with them. It sure looks like a shade of purple to me. 🤔 — 🇺🇸 Elections Matter 🇺🇸 […]
Continue reading →By @edent · data tweeview twitter · 3 comments · 350 words · read ~631 times.
Previously on Terence Eden's blog... About 4 years ago, I wrote about Visualising Twitter Conversations in 2D Space. Based on an idea by Lucy Pepper, I built a quick hack to show what Twitter threads actually looked like. Well, lockdown finally got the best of me, and I finished the project! TweeView.ml Here are a […]
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