I’ve published another prerelease of #MastoBot to #npm; this prerelease expands coverage of the MastoBotAPI class and significantly improves method documentation coverage.
Continue reading “MastoBot 0.1.0-2”Author: Eddie Roosenmaallen
By day I'm the Release Manager at Distributive (née Kings Distributed Systems); I help build the Distributed Compute Protocol at https://dcp.cloud - we're a distributed compute platform aimed at science, medicine, and industry.
In my off time I explore Linux, JavaScript and the web, and I try to share some of my knowledge and some of my humour online.
MastoBot Documentation!
I’m bad at documentation, so in #MastoBot I’m making a concerted effort to be mindful of it.
Enter tooling! I’m using #JSDoc with #GitLab Pages and CI.
Continue reading “MastoBot Documentation!”Collect a keypress in a bash githook
After a flurry of accidental pushes direct to the main branch at work, I decided we need a technical solution. The obvious answer would be to use GitLab’s protected branches, but that’s not practical at our org. Next best: a #githook to check the branch one is committing to, and have the user confirm or cancel as the case may be.
Continue reading “Collect a keypress in a bash githook”Get a Keypress in NodeJS
This turned out to be surprisingly difficult to find an answer for; I wanted to, in a node terminal program, wait for and return a single keypress.
Continue reading “Get a Keypress in NodeJS”Mastobot Beta 0.1.0-0
I’ve released an initial beta of #MastoBot to #npm.
MastoBot is a #JavaScript client library for #Mastodon. It offers 3 levels of helpers to communicate with a Mastodon instance.
Continue reading “Mastobot Beta 0.1.0-0”MastoBot
I’ve started work on my #Mastodon client library, #MastoBot.
Initial work has progressed well; I have wrappers for HTML methods and reasonable coverage of helpers for Mastodon API endpoints.
Continue reading “MastoBot”Check 1… Check 2…
this *should*, I think, show up in my #Mastodon home feed… Maybe also the tech.lgbt federated feed? Still figuring out #ActivityPub in general and this plugin in particular
Sound check
Technology has changed since I last updated this site, but joining #Mastodon has inspired nostalgic feelings about the old days of the Internet so I plan to shake the dust off this and maybe post some stuff again.
Speaking of Mastodon, I’m at https://tech.lgbt/@silvermoon82