Fitz Thiar: Thinking For The Impatient

Tag: Project

  • Best image?

    And image uploading to Threads from my Raspberry Pi 3 B, via my WordPress site (thiar.ca) is working. Turns out I was passing Meta the wrong URL for the image pulled from WordPress. I was sending “best_image_url()” which uses the dimensions registered as “large” in WP instead of sending the original image URL with original_image_url(). That was a rabbit hole. 

  • Social Publisher Update

    If you follow me on social media, particularly Bluesky or Mastodon, you may have seen a lot of “test posts” happening over the past few weeks. Usually, they appear at odd hours of the day and are promptly deleted. I’ve become disillusioned with the features and cost of social publishing tools such as Buffer and Hootsuite. When you post as infrequently as I do, the subscription costs don’t compare well to the minimal time required to do it myself. I’m not cranking out 50 inane brain farts a day, well, not for social media anyway. Comment scores, posting streaks, AI…

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