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Archive for April 30th, 2026

Some Twitter internals after I found GitHub – offish/twitter-broadcast-downloader: Download Twitter broadcasts/lives

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/30

Found this while trying to find the source from which I constructed this Bookmarklet which from a Tweet URL returns the JSON metadata which has all the links to media (like images and videos) as it failed for broadcasts:

javascript:{ tweetID = document.location.href.split('/').filter(e => e).slice(-1); url = new URL(`https://cdn.syndication.twimg.com/tweet-result?id=${tweetID}&token=!`); open(url); }

I could not find that back, but did find [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – offish/twitter-broadcast-downloader: Download Twitter broadcasts/lives via these query steps:

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Posted in Bookmarklet, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »

Dare Obasanjo: “GitHub … How many other services are painting a far rosier picture than reality on their service status pages?” – mas.to

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/30

Last 90 days uptime on 20260427 of the GitHub Platform, 87.25% uptime, by Marek Šuppa @mareksuppa

Last 90 days uptime on 20260427 of the GitHub Platform: 87.25%

Because of two alternative GitHub status pages, a lot of people now realise that GitHub gives a rosier result than the official pages.

April uptime not even had one nine, dropping below 89%.

Which begs this interesting question

“How many other services are painting a far rosier picture than reality on their service status pages?” by Dare Obasanjo: “GitHub just published a blogpo…” – mas.to:

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