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twtxt | |
November 30th, 2017 | |
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I finally got around to setting up twtxt! [0] | |
I didn't install the utility yet. I was more concerned with | |
writing microblogs than reading them for now. I knew I wanted to | |
host it on my sdf site, which is hosted on meta (ma.sdf.org). | |
I also knew I wanted to be able to author the microblog from any | |
of my servers. It's not as robust as the phlog, so I shouldn't | |
need to log in somewhere specific with a bunch of environment | |
variables or scripts or anything. Here's what I've got: | |
#!/usr/bin/env bash | |
twt(){ | |
local TWTXT=${TWTXT:-"/meta/www/t/tomasino/twtxt.txt"} | |
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then | |
read -ep 'Message: ' input | |
if [ ! -z "$input" ]; then | |
echo -e "`date -Im`\t$input" >> "$TWTXT" | |
else | |
echo "No message. Abort." | |
fi | |
else | |
echo -e "`date -Im`\t$@" >> "$TWTXT" | |
fi | |
} | |
meta="ma.sdf.org" | |
host=$(hostname) | |
if [ $host != $meta ]; then | |
ssh -t [email protected] twt "$@" | |
else | |
twt "$@" | |
fi | |
It's not super clean or polished, but it works. If I'm not on | |
meta, it ssh's to ma silently and runs the twt script on the right | |
server. I can either 1-line it or I can just run the command and | |
have it prompt me for my message. Then it's a simple append to the | |
file with the datestamp and done. | |
I guess I'll link it on the phlog? I'll have to figure out what | |
I want to do about reading other people's twtxt's too. I think | |
I need to write my own phlog aggregator before that, though. | |
[0] tomasino's twtxt | |