Finding Your Most Popular Bluesky Followers

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A long time, like, a really long time ago, I created a web app that would take your Twitter followers and then sort them by the number of followers they had. This was, of course, next to useless but was a fun excursion into the Twitter API and kinda cool to see "big names" following me. We all know what happened to the Twitter API, and Twitter itself, but last night I decided to take a stab at building something similar for Bluesky. If you don’t care about the how and just want to see the result, you can play with it here: https://happy-mountain-lamb.codepen.app/ Still here? Ok, let’s talk turkeycode! The Bluesky API I’ve built a number of demos already using Bluesky’s... more →
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Finding Your Next Amusement Park Ride with APIs

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Every now and then I’ll wonder if something or another has an API, google for it, and be pleasantly surprised to find that there is indeed an API available. This week that random thought was about ride waiting times for amusement parks. To be fair, it wasn’t completely random. I saw an ad on Facebook for a little display you can get for your home that shows live wait times. Obviously that’s targetted for amusement park freaksfans but it’s a cute idea and something I’d consider. I’ve only recently become a Disney fan (you don’t want to know how much I freak out at Galaxy’s Edge) so I get the attraction. In this case, my googling landed me on Queue... more →
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