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    How to Use Your Domain on Bluesky

    Bluesky is a hot new social networking platform that functions like Twitter from Twitter's original founder. New users are flooding into the platform as a respite from Elon Musk's vision of Twitter and the fumbles that have happened since his takeover. Upon signing up...

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    How to Create a Twitter Bot with Node.js

    Twitter bots have been in the news over the past few years due to election meddling, not only in the United States but stretching across the globe.  There are, however, good and logical reasons for creating Twitter bots.  In order to see how easy it was...

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    Social Sharing Links without Widgets

    Social sharing sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus are essential for people who blog like myself.  Why write about something you're passionate about if no one can find the article (purposely or by chance?)  People share enough of your posts and you get noticed and get...

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    Tweet from Command Line with t

    I've been obsessed with command line magic lately, as you may have noticed.  I don't plan on using every utility I've written about but I'm having fun learning about what's out there and how it's done.  My latest quandary was how one could tweet and perform other Twitter-centric tasks...

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    Retrieve Twitter and Facebook Counts with JSONP

    I've been annoyed that many popular APIs have moved to require authentication in order to retrieve information.  If I can browse a page and get said information, why can't I simply pull it with some simple code and skip the authentication bit?  I had thought that...

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    Xbox Live Gamer API

    My sharpshooter status aside, I've always been surprised upset that Microsoft has never provided an API for the vast amount of information about users, the games they play, and statistics within the games. Namely, I'd like to publicly shame every n00b I've baptized with my...

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    Facebook Open Graph META Tags

    It's no secret that Facebook has become a major traffic driver for all types of websites.  Nowadays even large corporations steer consumers toward their Facebook pages instead of the corporate websites directly.  And of course there are Facebook "Like" and "Recommend" widgets on every website.  One...

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    Facebook-Style Modal Box Using MooTools

    In my oh-so-humble opinion, Facebook's Modal box is the best modal box around. It's lightweight, subtle, and very stylish. I've taken Facebook's imagery and CSS and combined it with MooTools' awesome functionality to duplicate the effect. The Imagery Facebook uses a funky sprite for their modal...

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    Create Digg URLs Using PHP

    Digg recently came out with a sweet new feature that allows users to create Tiny Digg URLs which show a Digg banner at the top allowing easy access to vote for the article from the page. While I love visiting Digg every once in a...

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    Following MooTools on Twitter

    A while back I posted links to various official and unofficial websites that would keep you up to date on the MooTools project. Here are a bunch of Twitter-related links that will get you even closer to the project. MooTools Devs & Contributors Official Twitter Account