X Writer
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By definition going from work to writing some drivel on twitter is context switching lol.
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?
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
Not affiliated with Hacker News or Y Combinator. We simply enrich the public API with analytics.