#indiewebcamp 2012-12-25

2012-12-25 UTC
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tommorris
has indieweb reply working: http://tommorris.org/posts/7996
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tommorris
I need to do some fiddling with the API call back to Twitter, so I can specify that it is in response to a particular tweet and user etc.
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tommorris
the difficult bit was fixing my "take random markdown and turn it into a tweet-length string" functions
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aaronpk
heh yea
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tommorris
just need to extract the first link, grab the status ID and then set the in_reply_to_status_id field
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tommorris
mine doesn't do a preview, but that's cos I fail at anything JS
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aaronpk
yea i cheated. it posts the text to my server where i use the same shortening code and it displays back in JS. so the JS isn't actually doing anything
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aaronpk
it's super inefficient too, it posts after each keyup, lol
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tommorris
I can sort of internalise in my head exactly what my code is going to be doing. this is one of the benefits of having built it. ;-)
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aaronpk
sometimes i edit my text so that the twitter version has the right word at the end
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tommorris
that's basically what Tumblr does.
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tommorris
you can change it on Tumblr
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tommorris
incidentally, a friend of mine uses the fact that on Facebook, when you create an event, it cuts the event title off after a few characters to say some very dirty things.
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tommorris
I can't seem to find on Twitter a third party RT button
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aaronpk
like a graphic for it?
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aaronpk
yea I noticed that too. check this out: http://aaronparecki.com/notes/2012/12/25/1/facetime
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tommorris
nah, an actual JavaScript button so that if you are using Twitter and come to my site, you can RT the tweet that announced the post
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aaronpk
ah, I did find that
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aaronpk
but it doesn't look like a regular twitter button
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tommorris
ah, so I could use the Web Intents link like on there, but replace it with a more traditional share link
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