Sometimes when I’ve had a break from personal tech projects for a while I want to get back into the saddle but don’t want to commit to something massive. I want a bite-sized, single evening project with a definite output and often a Twitter bot is the perfect creation to fill that niche. Once you have the basic formula down pat, the process is pretty easy, with most of the hassle being in convincing Twitter to give you developer access if you want to go the manual route.
Update 2023-03-25: I’ve had to take this down thanks to some fuckboy’s API changes.
TL;DR: Aural - Sound Of Twitter changed hosting and stream! (Update: Offline for now)
Well! A bit changed since last post. Most prominently: yesterday I received a missive from AWS, a preset alert that I was going over my established high water mark for expected bill this month (not even halfway through!). It looks like running API Gateway for websockets is spenno.
Update 2023-03-25: I’ve had to take this down thanks to some fuckboy’s API changes.
TL;DR: Aural - Sound Of Twitter
After my last post discussing building a local site that lets you “listen” to Twitter, I decided to put it on the public-facing internet. But rather than just whack it on a VPS I decided to expand my horizons by putting a bunch of components through AWS.
My desired setup was:
Update 2023-03-25: I’ve had to take this down thanks to some fuckboy’s API changes.
One of my favourite sites, for years, has been Listen To Wikipedia, a soothing project in the idea of beauty and art coming from systems. Years back I set up the [Holiday by Moore’s Cloud] lights with a script that would automatically hook into the streaming of Wikipedia edit notifications and change in time to them, and the music if the web app was open concurrently.