Matt Round

@mattround
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Trying to make web more fun with vole.wtf @VOLEwtf and other online nonsense.
You can also hire me to devise 💡IDEAS💡 and turn them into proper plans & lovely web things.
Websitehttps://mattround.com/
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/mattround
The Vole Sitehttps://vole.wtf
ToastCooled then buttered
Right, I've just moved the vole site's account over to crispsandwi.ch (only a few stragglers haven't migrated automatically, might have to prod those people), now to try this one...
my brain is seized by shitposts

A batch of the smaller Twitter 3rd party clients has been banned over the last couple of days. I just can't tell if they are doing it this way because they are trying to maximize FUD and minimize outrage. Or if they don't have anyone left who knows how stuff works and are just doing searches for “xyz still works” and then blocking.

It would 100% be on brand to force the remaining TwitterDev employees to sit on client ban watch.

@paul Spring put out an update to let you input your own API keys. I had an OAuth server from something else and tried it. And it worked, but with limited access. This morning I saw Twitter revoked my Developer access 😅
for a word that basically means lazy, "lackadaisical" is a ridiculous amount of work
@joshmillard Would be pretty easy to animate this with a simple <canvas> webapp, could even use a photo/gradient for the square so you get a sense of where bits end up

The question that occurred to me a few steps in was: what does this do over the long term? Will it eventually reassemble itself as a square? If so, how long will that take? Will it enter some other cycle that starts farther down the line? Will it continue to produce new shapes indefinitely, in which case what will THAT look like?

Here is the first fifteen steps, worked out by hand. So far, no cycling!

No! WTF!
@sarahdal Yep, if you're not stirring up interactions it doesn't want to know, even if that's why people are following you
@sarahdal I get the vague, 'anecdata' impression that the impact of the timeline algorithm has become more 'extreme' - so most everyday stuff seems to be getting fewer views, but if something gets attention it takes off more