Tweetlol
Posted on the 18th of March 2009 at 17:19 by Bodil
Just to let you know where my creative efforts have gone lately, I’ve released an alpha version of my Firefox extension for Twitter users, Tweetlol. This is the first time I’ve done anything at all on the Firefox/XULRunner platform, and I find myself pleasantly surprised–it turned out to be far less complex and obtuse than I for some reason expected.
Tweetlol was written in frustration, as with most software I write; this time, I was experimenting with Twitter clients, and finding I really dislike those desktop clients sitting around just being in your way, and why are they all developed for Adobe AIR anyway?
I thought having one as a Firefox extension would be nice, so I looked around a bit and found one called Twitbin, which was pretty sweet. Except it turned out it was slow. Horribly, wretchedly slow. Admittedly, my tolerance for things that slow down my browser is extremely low, but I still think Twitbin was a bit unreasonable with my resources.
So I looked around some more and found Snowl. Which was a bit faster, even though it was a bit odd and lacked a lot of features. So I ran Snowl for a while. And it got really slow, once tweets started accumulating in its never-ending database. So I went back to Twitbin, which had gotten an upgrade in the meantime and was even sweeter. And even slower.
So, finally, I said “fuck it” and wrote my own. And here you are. Please try it out and let me know what you think.
