http://www.tweetlights.com <- I made this site as a side project when discussing how hard it is to help new followers quickly get up to speed on what you've tweeted about over the years since you can only have 1 pinned tweet. Quick and dirty code here (written in python using flask as well as the requisite javascript scripting for the front end): https://github.com/dbish/tweetlights. Site is hosted on AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
I made this site over a weekend as a side project when discussing how hard it is to help new followers quickly get up to speed on what you've tweeted about over the years since you can only have 1 pinned tweet. Quick and dirty code here (written in python using flask as well as the requisite javascript scripting for the front end): https://github.com/dbish/tweetlights. Site is hosted on AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
Hi! Author here. I built this because I wanted to be able to unroll Twitter threads to markdown (for import into tools like Roam & Obsidian). It was also a great chance to try Twitter’s new search API released this week.
I used NextJS, plus several great OSS projects of note:
I actually built this page a few years ago when I was working at Twitter during a hack day (bonus points if you can find the easter egg!). It's fun to see it on HN again.
Anyone who is interested in Twitter's current open source contributions should definitely check out the open source section of their engineering site as well:
We've been working on something like this but better for a while: http://meeep.com A totally customizable Twitter web client (e.g., you can upload your own userscripts, HTML templates, etc.).
Here's [1] a page where you are only allowed to use as much code as would fit in a Twitter message. There are fractals being created and other cool stuff (third one by "icecuber", ctrl+f). So, not really much code needed for some awesome effects.
But it seems that Dweet.io adds subscriptions and alerts to the mix - actively pushing data out to subscribers or when certain conditions are met. That's a nice addition.
My project used QR codes attached to a tweet as images to encode the message. It's still got a long way to go before it's at all user friendly, but I had fun building it.
Incidentally, this is where the "dwitter" name came from: "demos" as in the demoscene (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene) and twitter.
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