It's even worse than it appears..
Thursday, June 2, 2022
I connected with people on Twitter's developer relations team today. They had a conference call that I dialed into, and the conversation turned to my big wish for the Twitter API, that we organize the API so that from a browser-based app you can communicate directly with twitter.com, without having to run a server app as an intermediary. This has always been a big opportunity, but now there's communication. I've been developing apps using the Twitter API since 2006. There's lots of potential here, and their back-end is an incredible network resource. Lots to do here. Here's my followup thread posted earlier today. #
Today the NYT says I have 4 gift articles left this month. Yesterday it was 3. I don't get how this is supposed to work. #
I'm trying to get a new Mac OS partition set up for VMWare and nothing is working as it should. Just installing Chrome on the new instance is fraught with problems. I've never seen anything like this. Click the mouse somewhere, the thing 19 pixels down from it gets selected. Chrome's display is all garbled and nothing I click on works. #
Open source thread.center?#
  • I'm thinking about releasing thread.center as open source.#
  • It was the first browser-based Twitter app I wrote back in 2014 so it's really simple internally.#
  • It was called Little Pork Chop back then. 😄#
  • If you think it's a good idea let me know. Esp if you're a developer or aspiring developer.#

Last update: Thursday June 2, 2022; 10:20 PM EDT.

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