Ideas

[ironymaiden]

dhampreysa is doing some DW automation with a Google Sheet. I remembered hearing that the DW API didn’t really exist/was in shambles. Which is kind of true, but Ye Olde XML-RPC is still out there. And there’s a Python library for it, so maybe I’ll do a thing.

I need to figure out my exact use case; probably my own version of a linkspam builder or recreating my old ‘shiny thing’ quick posts that were killed by gmail formatting woes. Other ideas for machine-assisted posting are welcome in comments, if I do anything it will all end up Unlicensed on GitHub.

In other news, I wrote this with a Bluetooth keyboard attached to the iPad. Surprisingly nice - got it for travel to do double duty as a detached keyboard for the work laptop (a Mac from the era of terribad keyboards) and with the iPad as a sort of substitute for my laptop. I’m not expecting to do much personal coding on the trip and I would like to be able to read comics, so I think this is going to be a great compromise even though I may regret the ergonomics after a full work day. It’s a Logitech k480 which comes with a nice groove to prop your touchscreen device in and of all things has satisfyingly clicky keys. I like it so far.

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Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> so maybe I’ll do a thing <<

Go for it!

>> Other ideas for machine-assisted posting are welcome in comments, if I do anything it will all end up Unlicensed on GitHub.<<

I have a post about Recurring Posts. Some of these would be easier to automate than others.

Several are just a repost of the same text, although doing by hand, occasionally I add extra tidbits. But it should be pretty simple to program "Post this text once a week" compared to things that have to be compiled in some way. The followfriday gather post is always the same text, just copied and pasted by whoever gets to it first each week.

Then there are things compiled the same way predictably. The Monday Update posts have links to posts on my blog from the previous Wednesday-Sunday.

Other things, like Review Tuesday or What I Ate, might be compiled from somewhere else the writer posts things and turned into a linklist in Dreamwidth.

Those kinds of gathers would probably be harder to code, but might be doable -- and I've seen a lot of people making posts that are basically just lists of stuff like that.

[annofowlshire]

I really miss the thingie I had that would crosspost my Instagram to my DW. It was super handy since I loved to photopost XD (I think it also stopped working due to gmail stuff.)

I’ve been using an iPad attached to a bluetooth keyboard as my “laptop” for going on 3 years now (I don’t own a proper computer, unless you count my work laptop, which isn’t mine and only gets used for work). It has its drawbacks, but for my computing needs it mostly suffices. Mr has the newer iPad Pro and the really expensive attached keyboard. (But he also has a high end PC to go do real computing on.)

My iPad solution is getting older and wonkier (it was a refurb even before I got it), and I’m kind of thinking of going for a laptop, since… as I said, it mostly works, but not for everything, and the things it’s not working for is going up because my needs have been changing. *shrug*

[novel_machinist]

Oh, the projects sound interesting! I hope that your trip's fun.