I had the need to test a new My Opera API module that is soon coming out. Since this module, to be named Net::MyOpera, is modeled exactly after Net::Twitter, I tried changing my example script replacing all Net::MyOpera occurrencies to Net::Twitter. And there you go, a Twitter command line client was born.

I know, there's plenty of them already, and as I said, I didn't really need one, but since it's there already, it's nice to have it. So I saved it into my ~/bin folder, and aliased to tw, so whenever I feel the urge to communicate stupid things to the universe, I can now do that. Ehm wait… :-)

The code is out on Github.

As always, there's a hidden (poor) excuse for this. And it's that I'm working to port this Twitter command line client to Perl6. OAuth support needs a good deal of modules that are not immediately available for Perl6, so it's going to be exciting.

First we're going to need are Digest::SHA1, and Digest::HMAC for the HMAC-SHA1 signatures. These modules are not impossible to write, except currently there's a problem using Parrot libraries from Perl6.

I'm trying to do the same for my Perl6 Digest::MD5 module, but I'm stumbling on the following error:

t/perl5-compat.t ... Null PMC access in find_method('signature')
  in 'Digest::MD5::md5_hex' at line 11:lib/Digest/MD5.pm
  in main program body at line 17:t/perl5-compat.t
t/perl5-compat.t ... Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)

I will need some help on this :-)