☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.kinlane.com/@kin" class="u-url mention">@<span>kin</span></a></span> Kin, scalability and reach. </p><p>APIs and 🤖 code allow you to do things a human cannot. Using cheap commodity hardware, a well documented Python module and some custom code, since 2017 I’ve run a service ¥ that read out lines from Jane Austin novels, one line at a time every 15 minutes.</p><p>Humans cannot tweet as regularly as my 🤖 code. It is stable enough to run for months without intervention. I targeted <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/JaneAusten" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JaneAusten</span></a>, a popular author and grew the readership to almost 3K. Not big numbers, but read by a significant portion of the serious Austen readers and scholars on twitter.</p><p>I started if for a challenge and kept it running for fun. You can read more of the technical bits here: &lt;<a href="https://seldomlogical.com/pureausten.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">seldomlogical.com/pureausten.h</span><span class="invisible">tml</span></a>&gt;</p><p>¥ <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/PureAusten" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PureAusten</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://twitter.com/pureausten" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">twitter.com/pureausten</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>&gt;</p>