Two years ago, we wrote about building a Slack bot to automatically tweet new JDriven blog posts, and inform us about this using our dedicated internal Slack channel. Life was simple then. If it was on Twitter, it was "online".

But the social media landscape has fragmented and augmented. The tech community has spread, at least across X, Mastodon, and Bluesky. So to reach our audience today, we have to tweet, toot and who knows what to reach them.

We needed to upgrade our trusty Slack bot from a single-channel poster to an omnichannel syndication engine. In this post, I’ll walk you through how I refactored our Deno-based Slack app to handle multiple platforms, manage distinct authentication protocols, and ensure we don’t spam our followers with duplicate posts.

In our TechRadar Spring 2025 edition we highlighted the IntelliJ HTTP client and Bruno as alternatives to Postman, and also introduced you to Nushell. This post will focus on the latter.

The goal of Nushell is to take the Unix philosophy of shells, where pipes connect simple commands together, and combine it with a rich programming language. Nushell connects both by bringing a rich programming language and a full-featured shell together into one package, that runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Nushell uses structured data everywhere, for example output of ls command, or REST API calls.