Debian stuff
During a long era, electronic mail was the main communication tool for enterprises. Slack, which offer public or private group discussion boards and instant messaging between two people, challenge its position, especially in the IT industry. Not only Slack has features known and used since IRC launch in the late ’80s, but Slack also offers …
Many voices arise now and then against risks linked to the Github use by Free Software projects. Yet the infatuation for the collaborative forge of the Octocat Californian start-ups doesn’t seem to fade away. These recent years, Github and its services take an important role in software engineering as they are seen as easy to …
Do you need to send messages to both Twitter and Mastodon? Use the Remindr bot! Remindr is written in Python, released under the GPLv3 license. 1. How to install Remindr Install Remindr from PyPI: # pip3 install remindr 2. How to configure Remindr First, start by writing a messages.txt file with the following content: o …
Remember, Mastodon is a new decentralized social network, based on a free software which is rapidly gaining users (already there is more than 1.5 million accounts). As I’ve created my account in June, I was a fast addict and I’ve already created several tools for this network, Feed2toot, Remindr and Boost (mostly written in Python). …
Each time I remind people about one of my best blog posts, I do have positive reviews and a peak of traffic on my blog. But as an IT guy, I hate (so much) manually (gosh!) posting reminders of my articles on both my Twitter account and my Mastodon account. So I wrote Remindr. Each …
I just released the version 0.6 of Feed2toot, a self hosted bot to automatically post RSS feeds to Mastodon, a free (as in free software) and decentralized social network. Thanks a lot to all involved contributors (read the changelog for details), this version is mostly their work. Feed2toot on Gitlab (would be awesome if you …
I’m a user of the new Twitter-like social network Mastodon and the need to automatize sending content on a regular basis to Mastodon soon pushed me to develop my own tools like Feed2toot (RSS to Mastodon) and Boost (automatically boost messages). But I also needed a command-line client for the Mastodon Network in order to automatically …
On the Mastodon social network, you follow some really cool Mastodon users like Carl Chenet :p and each time he talks about Bitcoin, you know it’s a great comment and you usually boost it to share with your Mastodon followers. But sometimes you have to sleep so you need to automatize that boring task. Don’t …
Here is the list of my Free Software activities in April 2017. Thanks to all my donators, I have been receiving 1,95€/week through my Liberapay page. I also received BTC 0.00086600 and G1 15.5 It does not seem to be much but it’s a start and it’s very important to me to know that some …
As you may know the new Twitter-like social network Mastodon grows rapidly with great features like great UI based on Tweetdeck and with a decentralized architecture allowing resilience against censorship. But what about cryptocurrencies on Mastodon? My dear readers know cryptocurrencies are one of the topics I care about on this blog, with at …