How I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet

Oisín Moran created a tweet that contains a link to itself. https://t.co/MAbIwtoonW — quinetweet (@quinetweet) September 26, 2020 💡 Best viewed in a third-party Twitter client, as the Twitter website shows “This Tweet is unavailable” as it tries to expand the link. On his website he explains how he did it. Fundamentally the challenge is …

Automatic Website Publishing with git-ftp.py on Mac OS X

On a recent project I collaborated on, deployment happened via git-ftp.py, a Python script which automatically publishes your git repository to an FTP server. The script itself works with with an git-rev.txt file on the FTP server which keeps track of the last published commit. When deploying via git-ftp.py, the script only uploads the changes …