Say hello to `threadcat`! 🧶🐱

It's a little Rust tool which takes the URL to a Mastodon thread, and converts it to a Markdown file. It also downloads all attached media files (and their alt texts)!

That way, it's really easy to get a "first draft" for a blog post from a thread you wrote!

Installation: `cargo install threadcat`

➡️ https://codeberg.org/blinry/threadcat ⬅️

I've been hacking on it a lot this week, with my silly human hands, and it's been a lot of fun!

Right now, it can only read threads from Mastodon, and only output Markdown, but both directions could be extended.

To try it out, I've been using it to publish one blog post each day this week – you might have noticed! :D

Today's post is about DIY soft drinks! It's from when I started making my own cola and orange soda, and invented an "almond soda" that tastes like marzipan! :)

Still thinking about what ingredients would go in a DIY Mountain Dew, or a DIY Fassbrause…

https://blinry.org/diy-soft-drinks/

DIY soft drinks

Cola, orange soda, and almond soda!

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@hmnd @blinry @Westfuchs Not sure what you use for the carbonation, but I make fizzy water with baking soda and citric acid (available in the US in the home canning section of stores).

@c_merriweather @hmnd @blinry For carbonated water I usually go for a SodaStream machine (or similar non-branded device).

Du you put the baking soda & citric acid in the bottle and seal it?

@Westfuchs @hmnd @blinry Mix baking soda into glass of water, add citric acid, stir and watch the bubbles. Adjust ingredients, when it tastes neither acidic or base, drink. Adding lemon or lime juice makes it a refreshing drink.

(I got the idea after thinking about the "volcanoes" we built in elementary school: Take a glass bottle with small neck-
we used a glass coca-cola bottle in the 1960s. Build a papier mache mountain around it. Using a funnel, pour baking soda inside. Then pour vinegar with red food coloring in the bottle, and watch the "lava" pour down the sides of the "mountain.")