It's even worse than it appears.
Sunday February 20, 2022; 11:40 AM EST
The Twitter-to-RSS project#
  • The project is coming along. Implemented so far... #
    • Tweets can have titles. Make the first character in a tweet a #. The rest of the first line is the title. #
    • Full Markdown support. Anything you can type in a tweet can be Markdown and will be rendered as it's converted to an RSS item. Markdown is ideal for where Twitter is at now. It a plain text environment, and that's what MD is designed for. #
    • Threads are rolled up into the first message, forming one RSS item. In RSS there is no character limit. And Twitter has a good thread composition tool built in. #
    • Emoji short codes. This was an easy one so I thought why not. 😄#
  • Not sure how I'll package it for release. I want to wait until the major coding is done before deciding that. #
  • Still diggin! #
  • PS: This post as a Twitter thread, and then as an RSS feed item.#

Last update: Sunday February 20, 2022; 9:40 PM EST.

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