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15 days ago

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Fun idea, I want to be posting more so this seems helpful! Might be nice to have a screenshot in the GitHub repo / Marketplace page. Is it available in Cursor? I can't seem to find it. Could be useful as a CLI utility as well.

jawuilp

15 days ago

I'll keep your suggestions in mind,my friend,they sound great. For now, it's just version 1 I'll be adding things little by little.

jawuilp

15 days ago

Hey friend, thanks, I'm glad you found it useful :D. I'll post it on Cursor soon. I still need to research which extension store that editor and the others use, but I'll do it and post it when I have it there :D.

rglullis

15 days ago

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Is Twitter still in any way relevant? I understand that those people who already have a following would be less inclined to give it up, but whenever I go back is to delete the half a dozen of bot comments on old posts of mine.

__mharrison__

15 days ago

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Twitter is the best source of information for AI. Much to bsky's dismay.

aprilnya

15 days ago

That sounds like a pro not a con for bsky :)

jdlyga

15 days ago

Not really. You still see celebrities and influencers use it occasionally. But it's fallen off dramatically compared to where it was just a few years ago. TikTok has largely replaced it.

beepbooptheory

15 days ago

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I miss this: https://github.com/dickmao/nntwitter

jawuilp

15 days ago

Wow, this is great! I'll check it out :D, thanks.

bearjaws

15 days ago

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"without context switching"???

By definition going from work to writing some drivel on twitter is context switching lol.

jawuilp

15 days ago

Haha XD Well, that's true, but I did it because sometimes I feel like making a quick and short post and I didn't want to go to the app, so that's why I did it XD, but what you say makes sense.

welferkj

15 days ago

Whatever happeneed to, don't xeet where you eat.

eterm

15 days ago

So you need to sign on as a twitter developer, create your own "app" to get API access rights, register this as your app, then install a plugin.

Makes you wonder why anyone bothers with twitter.

This used to be a single API call against the public API, and before could easily be done through any SMS provider and just sending an SMS to the right number.

And is it really building in public if you're gating your results behind twitter's login-walls?

jawuilp

16 days ago

Hi HN,

I built this extension because the context switching was killing my productivity. Every time I switched to the browser to share a coding update (#BuildInPublic), I ended up doomscrolling for 20 minutes and losing my flow.

Since existing extensions broke with the X API v2 changes, I decided to build my own solution focusing on privacy and the Free Tier limits.

How it works:

BYOK (Bring Your Own Keys): It uses your own API credentials.

Security: Keys are stored locally using vscode.SecretStorage (never in settings.json).

Limits: It implements a local counter to respect the strict 17 tweets/24h limit of the Free API tier.

Write-only: It intentionally doesn't read your timeline to keep you focused.

It's open source and my first extension. Feedback on the code structure is welcome!

Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Jawuilp.... Repo: https://github.com/Jawuilp/X-writer

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