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Igor Brigadir posted a few useful Twitter search tips a while back: searching tweets, users, disable auto-URL, embedding media, etc

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/11

For my link archive:

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

Some Mastodon servers allow themselves to be wrapped with the cuckoo.social to give a G+ (Google Plus) like user interface

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/01

[Wayback/Archive] Cuckoo+ is a wrapper around Mastodon that makes the UI look like Google+ (G+ / Google Plus).

It is open source at [Wayback/Archive] NanaMorse/Cuckoo.Plus: A GooglePlus-Like third-party web client for mastodon. with hardly any updates like lik because the author is not active on Mastodon any more according to [Wayback/Archive] Is dead the repo ? · Issue #237 · NanaMorse/Cuckoo.Plus (via [Wayback/Archive] Issues · NanaMorse/Cuckoo.Plus)

Note that in some Mastodon instances it fails because of CORS issues:

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Posted in Development, G+: GooglePlus, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, TypeScript, Web Development | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

Keyboard shortcuts in social media: Twitter still tops is; BSKY needs a plugin; Mastodon is buggy

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/19

One reason I still use Twitter is that it trumps keyboard shortcuts over other social media I use.

References:

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Posted in BlueSky, Mastodon, Power User, SocialMedia, Twitter | Tagged: , , | Leave a Comment »

Moa: Link your Mastodon account to Twitter with Moa Bridge.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/19

Hopefully by now (given Spare Karen’s moves), this still exists: [Wayback/Archive] Moa

Link your Mastodon account to Twitter with Moa Bridge.

Documentation and updates are on [Wayback/Archive] Home — Moa Party

Welcome to the Moa Party!

Moa is open source server code that enables cross-posting between networks such as Mastodon, Twitter, and other networks. The main server runs at https://moa.party, and is maintained as a public utility.

This site is the Moa Party: used for status updates, documentation, and news from the maintainers.

You can also run your own instance as it is open source at [Wayback/Archive] FedStoa / moa · GitLab (formerly at [Wayback/Archive] FedStoa/moa: A Mastodon, Twitter, and Instagram Cross-poster).

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Way harder than I anticipated: How To Share Discord Profile Link

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/11

Some of the people I know are not on any of Signal, WhatsApp, Google Chat, or other usual direct message platforms.

This left Discord, which I use more (at least weekly) than Facebook Messenger (once a month or so).

Sharing a user-link there proved to be quite a bit more difficult than I anticipated: it even involves enabling developer mode!

The steps are at [WaybackSave/Archive] How To Share Discord Profile Link [Copy & Share]

Found via query: [WaybackSave/Archive] share direct link to discord account – Google Suche

--jeroen

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Thread by @jpluimers on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/07

A while ago, I wrote two threads (one in English and one in Dutch) about using the Twitter Alt-badge to make pictures in tweets more accessible.

The English one had the correct quote, but a wrong link which I corrected below (we want editable tweets!).

Two bots that I mention in reply-Tweets usually helps to rudimentary restore the text:

@get_altText @AltTextUtil OCR

in the first Tweet and to the reply that @AltTextUtil gives, I respond with another

@get_altText

Here are the two threads:

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Posted in accessibility (a11y), Development, Power User, SocialMedia, Twitter, TwitterBot | Tagged: , , | Leave a Comment »

Twitter Lists Memberships: jpluimers

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/17

This was fall 2022: [Wayback/Archive] Lists Memberships. Wondering what Twitter lists I am on by now.

Via: [Wayback/Archive] twopcharts_nl on Twitter: “Bij elk overzicht met lijstnamen, waarbij de meest recente lijsten boven en de oudste lijsten onder staan, van bekendere accounts, zie je de verharding van Twitter. Zo ook bij dit account van @BoswachterTim”

--jeroen

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Some more links on HEARN/EARN and BITNET relay (which chat and precedes IRC)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/24

Triggered by [Wayback/Archive] Hillel on Twitter: “Gen-Z programmers are always chasing the new shiny thing like Tailwind and Svelte instead of learning CS fundamentals, like React”, below some links on HEARN, EARN and BITNET Relay: conference system before IRC.

I might amend it later with more information, but for now the list is so that I do not have to re-do the search queries.

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Posted in About, BITNET Relay, Chat, History, Personal, SocialMedia | Leave a Comment »

Twitter image size suffixes reloaded: pbs.twimg.com URL information

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/18

It’s almost

Goal of the current post amend the above posts with information so I can later write a bookmarklet or web-page with JavaScript that – from a x.com or twitter.com – tweet URL can get the JSON, then the images and/or videos in all sizes, then generate a web-page from it for Wayback Machine archival.

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Posted in Development, HTML, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter, Web Development | Tagged: , , , , | Leave a Comment »

Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method • Zettelkasten Method

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/17

Every now and then you bump into an interesting post on a workflow you already have but did not know the name for.

This time it is [Wayback/Archive] Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method which has this nice definition:

A Zettelkasten is a personal tool for thinking and writing. It has hypertextual features to make a web of thought possible. The difference to other systems is that you create a web of thoughts instead of notes of arbitrary size and form, and emphasize connection, not a collection.

I thought a bit about it and it feels quite a bit like this blog: the ~5k draft posts at the time of writing are similar to a Zettelkasten: short notes with title and links either internally or externally.

These drafts are private, but the actual blog posts are either public (already published: some 8k at the time of writing) or queued for publication (some 2 years at the time of writing).

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