December Adventure Day 7

I've half changed my mind building an RSS feed. The RSS reader I use, self-hosted DanB/RSS, truncates content. I don't feel like migrating to another reader or updating DanB/RSS to allow selectively to not truncate content. I could just put up pages to link to, but I want more to have the content where I am and not a click away.

So the natural choice is to make a bot on the Fediverse.

Today's quick work, then, was creating an account on my GoToSocial server, configuring it as a bot, and setting up an "application" for statuses to be posted through.

I did turn on the RSS feed for the bot, so if I ever to get my RSS reader to behave the way I want I could read there.

Next session I'll do some test posts.

A rough plan for what's to come:

• Add a header of some sort to posts (like, "Title, by Author, part M of N")
• Pick a book
• Split it up
• Schedule posts
• Share and celebrate
• Set a reminder close to when the book will finish to pick another