First I wrote a silly post on twitter about how I have regrets and I used the hashtag “#ihaveregets”

Then I bought the domain name ihaveregets.com

Then I learned the twitter REST API

Then I wrote a little PHP script to pull down any posts written by me with the hashtag “#ihaveregrets” and display them as text

Then using the php5-memcached client I put that behind a 60 second cache in order to not violate the twitter API limits

Then I put it on my new domain, but it didn’t work because Ubuntu Dapper doesn’t support php5-memcached

Then I downloaded an ancient (copyright 2003!) memcached php client from http://phpca.cytherianage.net/memcached/ and adapted my script to use that syntax.

Then it worked!

Then I wrote this note.

Anyhow check out http://ihaveregrets.com/ it’s an awesome site even though so far I only have one regret and I haven’t make the HTML look good yet.