An API for Krabber, and a crab that reads the tide

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400

Part of my Krabber series, a Twitter clone in Go. The full source is on GitHub.

Intro

Krabber works, but for a long time the Sea (the public timeline) was quiet. A social network with almost nobody posting is a sad thing to look at, even one you built mostly to prove a point. I wanted something on it every day, I wanted an excuse to finally give Krabber an API, and I liked the idea that a network full of crabs ought to know when the tide comes in. So I built two things at once: a small write API, and a bot called @scuttle that reads the Manhattan tide and sky and molts about it. This post is how both came together.

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An API for Krabber, and a crab that reads the tide

Intro