liquuid/tweets

janky twitter replacement.

What is this?

This is @bcrypt's janky twitter replacement.

Vision!

 

Show this thread! (here in the Readme)

Setup

• fork https://github.com/diracdeltas/tweets
• in your fork:

git reset --hard d10b092
git push -f origin main

Stuff you can do

• to post:

git commit -m "your post" --allow-empty
git push

• to follow someone:

git remote add <git name> <their fork of diracdelta's repo>
git fetch <git name>

• to follow everybody using GitHub: ./follow-everybody.bash

• to repeat someone else's utterance:

git cherry-pick <their commit hash>

• people to follow

• to refresh your timeline and view it:

git fetch --all && git rev-list --all --remotes --pretty | less

• some alternative ways to view your timeline (use git show <commit hash> to show the full "tweet"):

git log --format="format:%Cred%cd %Cblue%h %Cgreen%cn%Creset: %s" --all --date=iso-local
git log --graph --all --decorate --oneline

• to get verified (GitHub-only):

1. follow github's own verification instructions and make your commit email match your GPG key email
2. git commit -S -m "your post" --allow-empty from now on

• to encrypt a message:

see encrypt using the public key of a github user in https://sshenc.sh/ or use your favorite key distribution mechanism to get their public key.

Cheatcodes

make post $"Your sage wisdom"

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make refresh

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make timeline

OR

make timeline-short

OR

make timeline-graph