For the last few months, one of my side-project social accounts has posted to X and note every morning and every night.
I have never pressed the post button.
It runs on a palm-sized computer in the corner of my room — not my laptop. While I sleep, while I'm out, it keeps going. This post is about how it's wired up, what actually paid off, and the parts that tripped me up (skip to the gotchas if that's why you're here).
To be clear: I run this for a separate side account. The account I'm posting this from is still hand-run. I automate the parts that are safe to automate, and keep a hand on the rest.
The problem I actually had
