Many social media automation platforms now charge for automatically posting an RSS feed to X.com (Formerly Twitter). One alternative to paid social media automation platforms is to use Slack. If you are already paying for Slack Pro this comes at no additional cost. In this post we will have a look at setting up a Slack platform app to post our JDriven blog RSS feed to X.com.

Our team has a (not so) slight tendency to not immediately follow through with our deployments to production. We’ll create and review our changes, merge and deploy to staging, and dilligently test the changes there. And then…​ nothing happens.

It could be that something else needs our immediate attention, or someone else wants to confirm an issue is fixed; Or we might want to deploy at a different point in time as to not disrupt an ongoing process by a service restart. Any which way the result is the same: changes accumulate in staging, and with that the risk involved with the next production deployment.

To nudge ourselves to deploy to production more often we created a Slack App that gives us a daily report of such pending deployments. In this post I’ll showcase the code we use, and how to set up something similar yourself.