Posts tagged ‘drtwoot’
Regexes, BBEdit, and Twitter screen names
December 22nd, 2011 at 8:41 pm by Dr. Drang
I found another bug in Dr. Twoot today. A pretty embarrassing one, given the context in which I found it. Here’s what my Twitter timeline looked like when I opened Dr. Twoot this morning: For some reason, the screen name for @bbedit_hints wasn’t turned into a link, only the @bbedit part was. It wasn’t too…
Twitter replies and JavaScript filtering
December 20th, 2011 at 9:03 pm by Dr. Drang
According to its Git history, I added a Reply to All button to Dr. Twoot back in September. Because I’m all clever and mathy and shit, the button I added for this looks like an upside-down A, which is the math symbol that means for all. It works like the Reply to All feature of…
Twitter spam again
August 19th, 2011 at 10:43 pm by Dr. Drang
When I added a simple spam-fighting addition to Dr. Twoot a couple of months ago, a couple of people wondered how effective it would be. So did I. It has just a couple of rules: A tweet is identified as spam if it’s from someone I don’t follow and it contains just my handle and…
Twitter’s shortened links
August 8th, 2011 at 9:03 am by Dr. Drang
A few days ago Brett Terpstra tweeted a link to this post on the Twitter development blog. Changes to the way Twitter handles in-tweet links are coming, some in the indeterminate future of “eventually,” some in just a week. I needed to make some changes to Dr. Twoot to accommodate Twitter’s new ways. The changes…
Fighting Twitter spam in Dr. Twoot
June 13th, 2011 at 11:36 pm by Dr. Drang
Twitter spam takes many forms, but every spam tweet I’ve gotten in the past couple of weeks has looked like this: @drdrang http://t.co/z5WSLml10:13 PM Mon Jun 13, 2011@drangspam Drang Spam Tester The body of the tweet has been, apart from my handle and some whitespace, just a URL. I’ve been reporting the spammers right away,…
New key feature for Dr. Twoot
January 29th, 2011 at 9:48 pm by Dr. Drang
I’ve been meaning to add a feature to Dr. Twoot for a long time: the ability to submit a tweet via Cmd-Return in addition to clicking the Update button. Today I finally sat down and did it. Some Twitter clients use just the Return or Enter key to submit a tweet. That would have been…
Dr. Twoot and Twitpocalypse II
December 23rd, 2010 at 11:00 pm by Dr. Drang
Back in mid-October, Twitter warned developers that another integer overflow problem was looming and that they should prepare their code to deal with it. I didn’t heed the warning, and for the past couple of weeks, Dr. Twoot has been behaving strangely. I think I have things fixed now. The original Twitpocalypse occurred back in…
Smart quotes in JavaScript
November 18th, 2010 at 8:55 pm by Dr. Drang
With my Twitter client Dr. Twoot back on its feet, I wanted to add a smart quotes feature that would give my tweets typographically correct quotation marks and apostrophes. I figured someone would have a JavaScript library or function just waiting for me to download and plug into my code, but alas, I ended up…
Son of the Return of Dr. Twoot
November 16th, 2010 at 9:44 pm by Dr. Drang
I’ve spent three months in the Twitter wilderness, but now I’m back home. I finally fixed Dr. Twoot, my HTML/CSS/JavaScript/JQuery/Fluid-based Twitter client, so it works with the dreaded OAuth. The fix didn’t go the way I planned, and Dr. Twoot has, unfortunately, become more complicated. I thought I’d be able to do all the OAuth…
HelTweetica
August 25th, 2010 at 10:02 pm by Dr. Drang
As the OAuthcalypse draws nigh, it’s looking more and more like I won’t have time to get Dr. Twoot updated before Twitter closes the door on Basic Authentication. Plan B is to use HelTweetica, an application I mentioned a couple of month ago and which has since been updated and improved. Heltweetica is both free…
