I think you could set up postfix to smtp forward to those services. So it could handle the oauth2 and you wouldn’t need to configure your client

I read Hard Drive by James Wallace and Jim Erickson a couple years ago. It was written between Windows 3.1 and 95. Super interesting to read Microsoft history from the perspective of that time period. I loved it.

A Shrek game being the first published game with deferred rendering is hilarious

I was just thinking a header with a suggested poll rate might be nice

The GitHub Event API uses a `X-Poll-Interval` header for this purpose. There is also Retry-After but that seems more targeted towards error states.

EDIT: There is the `Cache-Control` header, it seems ideal for this use-case

- https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/rest/acti... - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re... - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ca...

SQS, Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, QPID, etc… any message broker that provides the competing consumer pattern. though I’ll say having managed many of these message brokers myself, it’s definitely better paying for a managed service. They’re a nightmare when you start running into problems.

If you're using .NET I have to plug https://particular.net/ Nservicebus from particular.net. It's great at abstracting away the underlying message broker and provides an opinionated way to build a distributed system.

.Net SRE here, please no. Take 5 minutes to learn your messaging bus SDK and messaging system instead of yoloing some library that you don't understand. It's really not that hard.

Also, ServiceControl, ServiceInsight and ServicePulse are inventions of developers who are clearly WinAdmins who don't know what modern DevOps is. If you want to use that, you are bad and should feel bad.

(Sorry, I have absolute rage around this topic)

EDIT: If you insist, use MassTransit (https://masstransit.io/)

As a linux fanboy recently trapped in a windows world, I actually find Particular stuff not so bad to work with.

It's on the friendlier end of the spectrum among the tooling I help manage, at least compared to Microsoft crap.

Either way I'm feeling quite validated by your rage, so thanks for sharing. I feel like we could be good friends.

Woah this looks awesome, thanks for sharing!

I’ve been playing it on Mac with crossover. Works great

That’s gotten pretty hard to do recently since Musk cracked down on api access

It doesn't use the API

It's not hard, you just need a Twitter account and put in the credentials.

there are some public instances that I use to check a handful of profiles that have yet to migrate elsewhere

How does this blocking work with TLS? Does the Chinese firewall MITM HTTPS somehow?

The guy that developed the technique works on Path of Exile. They’re using it for POE2, he gave an awesome talk about it here

https://youtu.be/TrHHTQqmAaM?si=xrW0XT2lsGHqUYY_