Woke up on Friday morning (read: lunchtime) after a to-4am code-a-thon with a startup project I'm working on, refreshed and ready to take a well-deservered early weekend of rest and relaxation.<p>:) Right.<p>Needless to say, the first thought I had when I woke up was "wouldn't it be cool if..." and the rest, as they say, is two days of pure hackery. I give you the end result: TweetSnap.<p>It's a really simple premise: enter your Twitter username, get an image back which you can put on your site to show your latest tweet.<p>It's designed for people who uses websites/etc which don't allow the typical "insert javascript snippet for AJAXy awesomeness" but does allow you to hotlink images (great example: forum signatures).<p>I haven't looked to see if anyone else has done this yet, mainly because I just did this for fun and I don't really care :) But try it out, give me your feedback. Temperamental results to be expected while on shared hosting :)<p>For the techies:<p>- Rails 2.1 w/ a minimalist MySQL DB<p>- Image generation done with RMagick 2.5<p>- XML parsing with Hpricot<p>- Message parsing a combo of htmlentities and a custom lib (supports characters like ø™¡)