twitter - Grant Winney

5 Results tagged on "twitter":

Jul 28, 2019

Taming Twitter's New UI

If you have the ability to make a fundamentally broken, negative experience at least nominally better for some people, do you have an obligation (or at least a nagging hint of responsibility) to help them out?...

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May 28, 2018

My first experience with AWS Lambda (by taming Twitter)

I've been wondering if I can tame Twitter a bit by cleaning up my timeline. Using AWS Lambda and the Ephemeral Go package, I think I've found a good start....

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Apr 13, 2018

Twitter... bring on the chaos. Or not.

Everything that's happened with Facebook recently has me thinking a lot about social media in general - and the social media I use most, Twitter. What value does it bring me, and what are the hidden cost? And do the benefits outweigh those costs?...

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Dec 15, 2017

Accessing tweets, friends, lists, and more with the Twitter API

To kick off my 15 APIs in 15 Days challenge, let's check out the Twitter API, how to use it and what it has to offer. Their API allows you to access tweets, users who tweet, and metadata associated with tweets, as well as other actions like manipulating lists....

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Nov 15, 2017

Sick of all the noise on Twitter? I was too. So I wrote a Chrome extension to hide it.

A lot of sites load extra content along the top and in sidebars, to keep you on the site longer. It'd be trivial for Twitter to hide trends or who to follow, but there's no incentive to do it. I don't need the distractions though, so I wrote a Chrome extension to remove them!...

Experience gets you far, but good tools and services keep you moving in the right direction. Here are some of my favorites:

DigitalOcean is a versatile, affordable cloud provider. You can serve up a blog (like this one!), deploy a wiki, try out ansible, or do something much bigger. They host the annual Hacktoberfest too.

Cloudinary is an image and video management platform, which freed me from my dependency on YouTube to host videos on this site.

Backblaze offers an affordable, unlimited, set-and-forget backup service. They saved me from the click of death a couple years ago, and I've been a grateful customer ever since.