Github Actions

Tweeting New Jekyll Posts From Github Actions - Part 2

May 5, 2025

I previously wrote about my experience attempting to use Github Actions to post a tweet every time I publish a new post on my self-hosted Jekyll/S3/Cloudfront blog. I managed to get to a working solution that was too complicated, so I’m trying another approach. I was following this post by Dave Brock where he described using the commit message as the entire tweet - so every commit message and git push is a tweet. I dismissed it as too simple, but now that I’ve seen how complicated the alternative is I’m going to try something similar.

Tweeting New Jekyll Posts From Github Actions

May 3, 2025

This site is built with Jekyll and hosted on Amazon S3, with Cloudfront as the CDN. I recently did some work to make the deployments automated with Github Actions.