As I mentioned in this post, I’ve essentially abandoned Twitter in favor of Mastodon (you can find me on Mastodon via the link over there –> ). Now that I’m getting more active there, I wanted a quick and easy way to post new items published here to my Mastodon account for broader distribution and visibility. My initial inspiration came from this Dr. Drang post. At the time I wasn’t thinking about anything more complex than a simple script, but as I dove into the Mastodon API and ways to...