The Classroom

12:00 AM

So we could do that. We could use some blogging platform to share good q&a, and it's fine as long as we comply with the cc by-sa 3.0 with attribution.

Gypsy Spellweaver

@BenI. Somehow I just don't get the problem with mutability. It's how computers work.

It's also how algebra, et al. works

Ben I.

But algebra doesn't work that way

x + 3 = 7 means that x is 4, period. It can't suddenly become 5.

You see? :)

thesecretmaster

Thoughts on having a "CS Educators SE" twitter account? One of us can actually control the account and we all can agree upon good content to put there?

Ben I.

If it gets a certain # of upvotes, I think that that would be a good indicator

(perhaps 3?)

thesecretmaster

@BenI. Which "it" are you referring to?

Ben I.

12:15 AM

The question that we are considering tweeting

Peter

I love the idea of a twitter account!

I use TweetDeck extensively for managing multiple accounts

Ben I.

I don't think I have a Twitter account. Or, if I do, I haven't looked at it in at least 8 years

Does it make sense to make the Twitter account before we are in public beta?

I agree that twitter can potentially drive a lot of traffic for us, but I wonder about the logistics while we are still behind that login wall

thesecretmaster

Well, we should have places where we repost content to share it.

Ben I.

If we are still around in September, I will be able to drive a fair amount of active traffic here by myself

Peter

True, but it could at least stoke interest

It would also show SE that we mean business

Ben I.

12:21 AM

I agree that it can stoke interest. We just have to put both links into each tweet (the question, and the Area 51 link)

thesecretmaster

@BenI. But you can't upvote chat messages

Ben I.

... chat messages? I thought we were considering tweeting great Q's from the site

thesecretmaster

Oh. I thought you were saying whether or not we should have a twitter should be based on the upvotes on my comment.

Ben I.

No, I thought that we might eventually automate and send to twitter any question from the main site that gets >=3 upvotes

thesecretmaster

So I should make one? Or maybe @Peter should because he actually does the twitter, I don't.

Ben I.

12:24 AM

@Gilles Did SE make the CS twitter account, or did the power users there (you, D.W., Yuval, etc)

Peter

I'm happy to. I'll do it tonight.

Handing out Chromebooks at the moment, so I'm available intermittently.

Multitasking FTW!

thesecretmaster

I think @BenI. might want to wait until his question is answered, but I like the idea.

Peter

Which question? Sorry...might have missed it

thesecretmaster

11 mins ago, by Ben I.

@Gilles Did SE make the CS twitter account, or did the power users there (you, D.W., Yuval, etc)

Gypsy Spellweaver

@BenI. On one page we have`x + 4 = 7. Later on the same page we have x + 4 = 10. So, what is "x"? In truth, "x" is a place holder, and nothing more. Without that grasp, the student is always asking whether x is 6 or 3? How can it be both?

thesecretmaster

12:37 AM

Well, at any time x is either 6 or 3. It changes when it is reassigned.

Gypsy Spellweaver

So, it is mutable.

thesecretmaster

Yes. What's the question?

In a math problem you can reassign variables. It's confusing, but not against the rules of math

Gypsy Spellweaver

@thesecretmaster Relative to the problem mutability being a cognitive trap in CS education.

thesecretmaster

For the twitter thing, we should just share the password here with DH key exchange and some encryption.

Ben I.

Gypsy, when you have a different x later on the same page of your math textbook, it's only because the previous problem has finished. It's not the same x.

When we change a value in an imperative language, it is

Gypsy Spellweaver

12:43 AM

@thesecretmaster I gather that such mutability is also one of the pivot points when dealing with the imperative ⇔ declarative issue as well.

Ben I.

Turing made the Turing Machine

Nearly simultaneously, his Princeton thesis advisor Church made Lambda Calculus

Lambda Calculus has no mutability, Turing's machine does

The two of them got together and proved the Church-Turing thesis, which showed that their two (theoretical) machines were equivalently powerful

Gypsy Spellweaver

@BenI. What result can I get from either method, that I can't get from the other?

Ben I.

(and that all sufficiently complex systems were, as well)

None - that was the point - they were identically powerful

When the first computers were created very shortly afterwards, they were largely modeled on TMs, but only because that was the first version that someone figured out how to mechanically model

Gypsy Spellweaver

So why the debate about which to use? Seems as pointless as the debate between Intel and AMD.

Ben I.

But when we had our first high level programming languages in the 50's, they were FORTRAN (modeled after TMs), and LISP (modelled after Lambda calculus, with no mutable values)

The two languages came out within 8 months of one another

Gilles

12:48 AM

@BenI. SE did. But they no longer do it.

Ben I.

Lisp became Scheme and Haskell and, to some degree, PERL

FORTRAN became C and C++ and Java

The question isn't whether they are equivalently powerful - they are - it's just about what is difficult about learning each aproach

Turing's model became more popular, so more people know it, but I don't think it's actually easier

I think it was just easier to model in a physical machine

Gypsy Spellweaver

Therein lies my problem, I don't see either paradigm as harder than the other: to grasp, to learn, to use, or to present.

Ben I.

Well, see what you think after you read my answer to Gilles question (after I'm done with it)

Back to twitter, does that mean that the CS twitter account is no longer updating?

Gypsy Spellweaver

That's the very one that got me going :)

It also helps me understand why I seem to like PERL so much.
FORTRAN + Lisp + Objects + freedom = PERL.

thesecretmaster

@BenI. It posted 2 hours ago, so presumably no.

I bet SE still runs it though

But if they wont make us one, why don't we do one ourselves? We can always delete it if they hate us.

Robert seems to be implying that we need more people now though, and so I'd like to just go for it. We can all share the password in this room by using DH key exchange and AES 128 bit encryption and then deleting the messages.

Ben I.

1:00 AM

As long as you can talk me through that in baby steps, I'm all for it ;-)

Peter

We could make it "unofficial" and just speak for a community of educators

Ben I.

I love that idea

Gypsy Spellweaver

@thesecretmaster The only possible problem I see is that "Stack Exchange" probably has some trademark protection involved.

thesecretmaster

Then they can tell us and we can change it. I don't think they'll shut down the site for it.

Obviously if they warn us then we change it, but otherwise I see no reason not to use it.

Gypsy Spellweaver

It's probably better to have it, as @Peter said, a community of educators, who happen to love CSE

Ben I.

1:02 AM

We're a community of educators who have come together over a SE. There are no legal issues there

thesecretmaster

So the name should be "CS Educators" or "CS Educators SE"?

Gypsy Spellweaver

The content is all licensed the easy way, so the content isn't an issue. Only the possible "official" implications when it's not. "SE" is best left out of the name.

Peter

I'd leave off SE

thesecretmaster

OK.

Peter

Regardless of this site, building a community of CS educators is important

thesecretmaster

1:07 AM

So lets do it!

Gypsy Spellweaver

Admittedly I'll be no help. The last time I used Twitter, if ever, was in a former life, in an alternate universe. All I know about it is that someone got rich selling it :D

thesecretmaster

Not "no help." You'll still be moral support :)

Ben I.

I just asked a lawyer, and she also recommended that we leave out SE. (With the caveat tht this is not even remotely her area of law, and she has not read the terms of service we are operating under)

She did give some advice that if we wanted SE in our name we could just ask Robert

I might have to dust off twitter for this :)

thesecretmaster

I'd actually really like to talk to him. So many questions! If only we could ping him into here...

Ben I.

Aren't there programs that allow multiple people to funnel into one twitter account?

We probably can, realistically, if we figure out what we want to discuss with him and get organized about it. He seems pretty open to talking to folks who need his input

thesecretmaster

1:12 AM

@BenI. Maybe. We could also take this as an opportunity to learn about DH key exchange and share the password like that.

Ben I.

We would just ask him to schedule something in at an agreeable time

Gypsy Spellweaver

If it's only going to "post" content from our questions, the account could be handled by one person, and we can just @ping them in here.

Ben I.

I nominate Peter or secretmaster for that. I am not fluent in Twitter. :)

thesecretmaster

@BenI. That'd be nice. I may not be able to join though, because I am still taking classes at school and I'm sure SE doesn't endorse me texting in class.

@BenI. I pass the nomination to Peter because I've never done the twitter

Peter

I'm happy to

I can handle all the managing of tweets and such since I use it quite a bit

Gypsy Spellweaver

1:15 AM

Contacting Robert is simple, comment on his answer in meta. cseducators.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13/104

Peter

I'll do that now just to show that we are being above board

thesecretmaster

Great! Send the link please.

If anyone wants to learn a really cool crypto thing, still google DH key exchange. It's pretty awesome.

Peter

5

Q: Can this site succeed? — encouraging more users and questions

What can we do to encourage more users to ask more questions? There are so many great ones sitting in our proposal waiting to be asked. The definition phase brought up some great topics that could be asked as-is or with only minor alterations. A few examples... Best way to explain the differen...

See my comment

Gypsy Spellweaver

Better place to post the comment than the one I found. ;)

Ben I.

It's a response to RC's answer

(3rd response)

thesecretmaster

1:19 AM

Maybe you should mention that we've been having many discussions in chat

Gypsy Spellweaver

Not to be abused, of course, but that's a method of reaching any user that has posted. :D

@thesecretmaster I suspect he'll review transcripts before joining anyway.

thesecretmaster

@GypsySpellweaver Yeah, but just to give context to the "we" mentioned in the comment, it might be nice to say who "we" are.

I'd also like to know how "massive" this voter fraud was, but seems like it's a secret :(

Gypsy Spellweaver

1:34 AM

Well, in a manner of speaking, we have our answer. Robert already responded to the comment.

Ben I.

I did notice a huge number of accounts with a score of, I think, 51, was it?

And none of them seemed linked to any other SE, so I was a bit suspicious myself

thesecretmaster

It was weird to see "69.4% [committed to] only this proposal"

Ben I.

Yeah. The reason that we are here is because of the requirement for users with over x rep

(I forget what x was)

thesecretmaster

What requirement?

Gypsy Spellweaver

@thesecretmaster Some are even higher. Bioinformatics is 80.8% only to that proposal.

Peter

1:39 AM

stackexchange.com/legal/trademark-guidance

Not 100% sure how this affects twitter exactly. Can someone confirm what this might mean?

Ben I.

It means that we shouldn't put SE in our name unless we ask explicit permission :)

Gypsy Spellweaver

From commitment to beta needs a score of 100
>The commitment score is the minimum of three scores:
>200 committers in total
>100 committers with 200+ rep on any other site
>commitment score, based on committers' activity on all other sites and how old the commitment is

@BenI. That and be clear, when we mention the Stack Exchange Network that we use the name properly, and don't imply there's any official sanction or support from SE for the account.

I.e.: we use SE, we're not SE.

Ben I.

We had 5 questions in the last 24 hours. That's really nice!

Gypsy Spellweaver

kewl

thesecretmaster

2:01 AM

@BenI. Should be 10 though... :(

Ben I.

Well, considering that the day before, we had 1, I'll take it :)

He's already hinted that he will give us an extension, so I can't be too too concerned about not making 10

thesecretmaster

@Aurora0001 I just tried out the tampermonkey script. A++ :)

Ben I.

72 looks a lot better than the 67 we had 24 hours ago :)

thesecretmaster

Yeah

But the important question is "Who's asking"

Ben I.

Gilles, Ryan, Ryan, Ben, Peter

Gilles is a first question :)

thesecretmaster

2:13 AM

It took me by surprise to see Gilles in the First Posts queue.

Ben I.

Shocked that he needed no editing, I'm sure ;-)

I was pretty excited about that, too

thesecretmaster

@BenI. I'm really shocked that the person who earned mod status on 3 (?) sites knows how to write posts.

Ben I.

Crazy, right??

Gypsy Spellweaver

@thesecretmaster ;P

Careful, you might get a polyglot response :D

thesecretmaster

Just updating everyone, the ads still need three more votes each.

And was Peter going to make a non-SE CS twitter that really likes this beta?

Ben I.

2:17 AM

He presumably still will :)

He might be wairing to hear back from Robert

thesecretmaster

Oh, true, nevemind

Would "How can I advertise my CS class?" be on topic?

Ben I.

I would guess not, but I'm not entirely sure about that - getting girls into coding is obviously a huge concern

Same for getting minorities, so... perhaps?

It might be a question for meta

Gypsy Spellweaver

That tends to be a problem for all STEM areas :(

thesecretmaster

2:32 AM

@BenI. Do you know the NYC specialized high schools?

Ben I.

Yes, some of them

Certainly by reputation, and some by knowing people who attended, work or worked at them

thesecretmaster

Have I mentioned my school?

Ben I.

You have not

thesecretmaster

OK, then I have a hint: It's hard to advertise CS at a school thats majority female artists.

Do you know the school?

Ben I.

If it's one of the traditional selective schools, then I have very mixed feelings about it. If it's one of the new bunch of schools, then I have no idea, because I don't know those.

You may have gathered from my icon that I am also heavily involved in music. I have graduate degrees from a conservatory and everything :)

I think I'm heading to bed... good night, folks!

Gypsy Spellweaver

2:46 AM

tt4n

thesecretmaster

Goodnight. I'm curious about you mixed feelings if you guessed the school right.

thesecretmaster

3:05 AM

We can continue this is the morning, but becuase it gives you very mixed feelings, I think you guessed right.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

3:29 AM

Greeting people! :)

I am here!

Gypsy Spellweaver

Ain't cyberspace wonderful? You can be two (or more) places at the same time.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Yep

Nothing to review.

Gypsy Spellweaver

3:46 AM

Make a new wiki for one of the tags then.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

@GypsySpellweaver Ah yes I should edit a tag.

Thank You! :)

@GypsySpellweaver Are you in?

Gypsy Spellweaver

In the room = yes. in my right mind = no.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Ok

Gypsy Spellweaver

If I wasn't a nut, I'd be a squirrel.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Ok

Gypsy Spellweaver

4:03 AM

I've been coding for so long that I practically think in code. That don't do so well with people IRL.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Ah

So you are a computer.

Gypsy Spellweaver

1

01011001 01000101 01010011

p x.x

Henry WH Hack v2.0

He's gone

he's programming insane

Dude take a break.

ubuntu@ubuntu~$ sudo kill 741

I killed his process.

ubuntu@ubuntu~$ gypsyspellweaver

Gypsy Spellweaver

11001001

Henry WH Hack v2.0

and know it's been restarted.

Gypsy Spellweaver

4:10 AM

systemd has resurrected PID 104

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Hard time with my charger.

I should really get a new one.

Gypsy Spellweaver

Did you get it taped up?

Henry WH Hack v2.0

I will find some tape

e tape

Gypsy Spellweaver

Shouldn't be too hard to find. Walmart has everything ;P

Henry WH Hack v2.0

later

Gypsy Spellweaver

4:13 AM

tt4n

Henry WH Hack v2.0

@GypsySpellweaver No I think I have some in my house.

Gypsy Spellweaver

Is that closer than Walmart?

Henry WH Hack v2.0

@GypsySpellweaver I'm in my house right now.

Gypsy Spellweaver

There goes that excuse.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

It's only a matter or time until the charger really really breaks.

Then in my case I will have to wait like forever to get a new one.

Gypsy Spellweaver

4:22 AM

What brand is the charger, and what are the specs on the label?

Henry WH Hack v2.0

I can't move the charger right now.

I hate that.^

Or the laptop

I don't want to move anything until my laptop is full charge.

Gypsy Spellweaver

More like a miniature version of a desktop then.

How much are you doing with it, other than the browser, at the moment?

Henry WH Hack v2.0

I am in this chatroom at the moment.

Nothing else.

It's a lenovo

Gypsy Spellweaver

You could throttle back the CPU, takes less power and charges faster.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

AMD

g50-45

and around 6 GB or RAM

I have two more laptops.

Gypsy Spellweaver

4:27 AM

You are using Linux, correct?

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Yes

Go on

U
B
U
N
T
U
LINUX

Gypsy Spellweaver

then do cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies and see what your throttle options are.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

ok

Are you sure?

Gypsy Spellweaver

then pick the 2nd or 3rd lowest one, say 2000000, and type

Henry WH Hack v2.0

I regularly use the terminator terminal.

Gypsy Spellweaver

4:31 AM

cat 1400000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq

that will only allow the CPU to scale up to that number, keeping it in low power mode.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

I have to confirm that what you are telling me is correct.

Gypsy Spellweaver

Once you want to resume normal use just set it to the highest value instead of the 1400000

Be careful counting the zeros, though

Oh yea, the setting has to be done with sudo of course.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Oh yeah sudo

Don't forget sudo

Gypsy Spellweaver

user can read the values, but not set them.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Yeah I will do that sometime.

Are you sure it's cat and not echo?

Gypsy Spellweaver

4:34 AM

It's not perm. either. Reboot resets it.

You are correect, it is echo :|

Henry WH Hack v2.0

WOW!

Gypsy Spellweaver

I have to do that every time I boot. My FX62 is too old and runs hot, bad.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

I was correct and I didn't even researched it.

@GypsySpellweaver You see if I did ran that who know what would of happened.

Hold on

Gypsy Spellweaver

Nothing would have happened.

I've made that error many times.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

@GypsySpellweaver Oh well I was being careful.

Which is a good things.

Gypsy Spellweaver

4:37 AM

I keep thinking I should script it, but it's just a one liner anyway. and I seldom reboot, so never worth the effort and time.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

ubuntu@ubuntu~$ rm -rf /*

ubuntu@ubuntu~$ sudo chmod -R 000 /

ubuntu@ubuntu~$ sudo cat /dev/random > /dev/sda

Gypsy Spellweaver

TBH, I don't reboot at all, the computer dies.

gypsy@galdrgard:/home/nexus/gypsy> dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1

:D Now just what do you suppose that would do to my machine?

Henry WH Hack v2.0

@GypsySpellweaver I don't really know anything about dd but it looks like something bad. (Maybe kernel panic)

Gypsy Spellweaver

To my machine nothing. To yours kill the boot sector.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Ok

Gypsy Spellweaver

4:45 AM

dd is binary-safe datadump, byte for byte copy.

My boot device is /dev/sdd7

Henry WH Hack v2.0

I should move to sda77KBJ2.

Gypsy Spellweaver

Wow, I just realised that the person who proposed this site can't use it :(

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Yes he can.

He's just suspended on Area51.SE not here.

Gypsy Spellweaver

vk2015

1 2

github version-control

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Wait you mean

:O

He's suspend here too.

Gypsy Spellweaver

4:51 AM

Also means his question won't get an accepted answer either.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

:O

I have been suspended before.

Gypsy Spellweaver

His other accounts are fine, just A51 and CSE

Henry WH Hack v2.0

@GypsySpellweaver Yep

Gypsy Spellweaver

Exact same release date. I wonder if the suspension was carried over from A51?

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Maybe

Gypsy Spellweaver

4:54 AM

Wait.. Nope that can't be. He did post a Q here.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Oh yes

Gypsy Spellweaver

That stinks though. He can't help the site, and he's the one that wanted it bad enough to do the proposal.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

At the moment only the employees can suspend someone on this site as we don't have community moderator yet.

Maybe he was suspended by none other than:

But we can't say for sure.

Gypsy Spellweaver

It's possible, even probable .

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Maybe it's Shog9?

Shog9 ♦, Colorado, United States

2.2k 2 15 31

technology area51-meta discussion proposal-scope life business status-completed

He's in the shadows.^

Like @anonymous2

Gypsy Spellweaver

5:00 AM

bestofsherlock.com/top-10-sherlock-quotes.htm#impossible

Peter

5:30 AM

It's alive! twitter.com/cs_educators

2

Just created. I'll start in earnest in a bit. Want some feedback form y'all regarding timing, tone, frequency of messages.

from*

Gypsy Spellweaver

@Peter For the profile "pic" why not use the community ad created by @thesecretmaster?

Peter

I wonder if would straddle the line of what is okay for branding...would it seem like SE is behind the account?

Henry WH Hack v2.0

5:45 AM

@GypsySpellweaver You changed your profile picture again.

Gypsy Spellweaver

I don't think so. We're encouraged to use the name, and that's not claiming we are SE or part of it, just that we congregate there.

@HenryWHHackv2.0 Boredom is a terrible thing

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Yep

Gypsy Spellweaver

I've got a few pics of Rusty that seemed to frame well as avatars.

Peter

The community ad doesn't work with twitter's profile pic dimensions

Gypsy Spellweaver

What are they asking for?

Peter

5:49 AM

Twitter's are sqare

Gypsy Spellweaver

300x300

Henry WH Hack v2.0

@GypsySpellweaver I like it.

Kind of

Gypsy Spellweaver

Or, wait for @thesecretmaster to get back and have him make one that's just for titter

Peter

Good idea. Let's get community buy-in on something that's meant for the twitter audience.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

@GypsySpellweaver "private beta" But what what if someone saw the ad when the site is in public beta?

Gypsy Spellweaver

5:57 AM

If he'll make a new one, Change the text a big.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Ok

Gypsy Spellweaver

Do CS?
Like Teaching?
Join us on the
Stack Exchange
Network

Peter

We have to remember though that most people see very, very small versions of the profile pic

that much writing will be too small to be legible

Gypsy Spellweaver

Do you have a page where I can see a standard view of a prof pic?

Anyones page

Peter

CS50

@cs50, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

Harvard University's introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming.

605 tweets, 29.7k followers, following 7 users

What most people see is about the size you see in the window right now

Gypsy Spellweaver

6:06 AM

so abt 64²

Peter

Yep. Not much to work with for writing.

Gypsy Spellweaver

no good

Better than I expected though.

@Peter BTW kitty needs a diet.

Peter

haha

that's Harvard's standard CS50 image

Gypsy Spellweaver

Maybe Harvard needs a diet too

Peter

touche

Gypsy Spellweaver

6:14 AM

@Peter I see one change already.

> working to build a professional community on the Stack Exchange platform.

should be

> working to build a professional community on the Stack Exchange Network.

the Stack Exchange platform is something they sell/license to others.

iirc

Peter

ahhh

good catch

fixed

Gypsy Spellweaver

So, fill me in here. From looking at the CS50 page, looks like you can one-box from other sites?

Peter

Yes. Twitter typically does that with links/images.

Gypsy Spellweaver

So your could tweet about the site, add an image and have that link to the site.

Peter

Yep

Gypsy Spellweaver

6:32 AM

Original size 500x100

That fits in the window I see on the CS50 page

Make that image link to the A51 page like the link in the profile does. Make a tweet that we're just beginning the process of building and that now is the time to help define the site and make it useful for CS teachers.

@Peter ^^^

Peter

Will do. I'll send it out in the morning though and retweet from my account. Since I'm PST, most of my followers are asleep.

Gypsy Spellweaver

Working on a little better image.

@Peter Better formatting of the text lines.

Peter

Definitely

Gypsy Spellweaver

That image will work through public beta too. just have to change the link when that happens.

Got the page bookmarked so I can find it again later :)

Henry WH Hack v2.0

7:19 AM

I have returned!

Gypsy Spellweaver

void main()

Henry WH Hack v2.0

@GypsySpellweaver Code

Gypsy Spellweaver

ABEND

Henry WH Hack v2.0

How long have you been using Linux?

Aurora0001

10:34 AM

@Peter If you want, you can have the Twitter account controlled from chat, like they do on the Literature site

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/57503/twitter-control-room

Ben I.

How do they set that up?

Aurora0001

I'm not sure how they did it, but I believe it uses IFTTT

Basically, every message from chat goes into an RSS feed for that room

IFTTT can watch for updates to the feed, then perform an action (like a twitter post)

8

A: Could we have the ability to control a site's twitter feed from a chat room?

A remark for those interested in such a thing: Chat offers an RSS feed for any keyword/room combination. For example, here is RSS feed for the word "twitter" in the Literature room (see the RSS link in bottom right). IFTTT can connect an RSS feed to your Twitter account. Put the two things t...