taizou @lion@computerfairi.es

like when replying to a post you don't just need to supply the id of the post being replied to but also the id of the root post in the thread so you have to go and fetch the post you're replying to to find out if it has a root post
and whenever i've said "id" here it's not really an id it's a "strong reference" which consists of a uri and a hash & you get those after posting a post but you can't retrieve a post using them directly, you have to parse out the uri into separate components yourself

since i've been working on updating my old twitter bot code to support multiple platforms and add features i am currently concluding that bluesky has the most annoying api

What is your favorite cocktail? — honestly i don't drink cocktails regularly enough to have a favourite, if i find myself in a cocktail bar i just pick something i fancy off the menu. but i like a mojito, i like an old fashioned. maybe something with midori. or a long island iced tea cos it gets me drunk https://retrospring.net/@taizou/a/112899783195651083

You playing anything seriously lately? — picked up eschatos which is great. still playing splatoon 3 but i think i've reached my skill ceiling at S+/X battle level cos I'm just getting my arse handed to me over and over which is not so much fun. also replaying mother 3 (i originally played it way back when the fan translation first came out & i've forgotten most of it by now) https://retrospring.net/@taizou/a/112899683175597345

I got around to playing Eschatos & it's fucking good
Currently 471st in the world lol

@gifsbot there does seem to be a known issue with mastodon which can cause what i saw. but honestly it could equally be a bug in my code. who knows. not me because i'm not logging anything ​ https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21864

@gifsbot still not really sure what happened but i've switched it to 2x scaling the images instead of 4x in case it was choking on the size, hopefully that helps

(the 4x scaling was done to try and preserve quality on bluesky which has a particularly shitty way of handling images but wasn't necessary for mastodon nor twitter, so i've now made it only scale to 4x for bluesky specifically and reverted to 2x for the others)

hmm @gifsbot just posted a post with text but no image... i wondered if the image might've been too big so i reposted it manually and it worked fine (https://botsin.space/@gifsbot/112877129776659816)
also it's set up to abandon the entire post if the image upload fails... and yet it still posted the text... so does that mean the upload succeeded but it failed to attach to the post? can that happen?
i need to keep an eye on this bastard

the last one of my surviving twitter bots is up on here now:
@choro_qbooks

this one posts random quotes from the PS2 classic Road Trip Adventure

gifs galore bot is now active on the fediverse!! wow!!! @gifsbot