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  • Why Mallary Is the Best Social Media Tool for AI Agents

    Why Mallary Is the Best Social Media Tool for AI Agents

    Managing social media should help grow your business—not consume your entire day. Mallary brings publishing, scheduling, engagement, and analytics into one streamlined platform, making it easier to maintain an active online presence without constantly switching between apps.

    With Mallary, creators, founders, developers, and growing businesses can manage multiple social platforms through a single dashboard and API. It handles complicated tasks such as authentication, platform-specific requirements, rate limits, retries, and publishing queues behind the scenes.

    How Mallary Can Improve Your Life

    Mallary gives you back one of your most valuable resources: time. Instead of manually uploading the same content to several platforms, you can publish or schedule it through one workflow. You can also monitor performance, add comments to posts, and use brand-aware AI auto-replies to respond to your audience.

    That means fewer repetitive tasks, more consistent content, and more time to focus on your customers, products, creativity, or personal life.

    Built to Work With AI Agents

    What truly makes Mallary different is its AI-agent-ready design. Through its Model Context Protocol integration, command-line interface, and REST API, AI agents can upload media, create and schedule posts, inspect publishing jobs, review analytics, and manage connected accounts.

    You could simply tell an AI agent to schedule a product announcement, publish a video across your selected channels, or check how yesterday’s campaign performed. Mallary provides the tools the agent needs to turn those instructions into real actions.

    Automate Social Media Without Losing Control

    Mallary combines powerful automation with human oversight. You decide which accounts are connected, what gets published, when content goes live, and how AI-generated replies should reflect your brand.

    For anyone who wants to spend less time managing social media and more time building something meaningful, Mallary is one of the best social media automation platforms for the AI-agent era. It turns a fragmented, repetitive process into one simple, scalable workflow.

    Check it out today at https://mallary.ai

  • How to improve the performance of your Axios API requests

    There are two simple changes you need to make in order to drastically improve Axios performance:

    • Don’t create the HTTP agent for every request
    • Enable HTTP Keep-Alive

    The Axios docs show that when using a request config you should specify agents like this:

    //...
  httpAgent: new http.Agent({ keepAlive: true }),
  httpsAgent: new https.Agent({ keepAlive: true }),
//...

    But of course, this means you’re creating two new agents for every request.

    Instead you should make an Axios Helpers file which imports Axios, sets the defaults, and then exports Axios:

    //axios_helpers.ts

import axios from 'axios'

import https from 'https'

const agent = new https.Agent({
    keepAlive: true
})

axios.defaults.httpsAgent = agent

export default axios

    and where ever you use axios, you should import it from this file so that the default agent is set, and HTTP Keep-Alive is enabled.

    // page.tsx

//before

import axios from 'axios'

//after

import axios from '../utils/axios_helpers'

  • How to finish your MVP in a weekend.

    You’ve got an idea, you’ve done your research and now you must validate your idea by building an MVP.

    Here are some ideas and tips to ensure you get that MVP wrapped-up in a weekend:

    • Don’t be concerned about using the latest library or framework, use PHP and JQuery if it means you get the job done quicker.
    • Don’t even think about future scalability, no AWS auto-scaling. Opt for the free plan from Cloudflare for your CDN.
    • Don’t waste time setting up a pipeline to minify your JS and CSS, just check the boxes in the Cloudflare dashboard and they’ll minify everything for you.
    • Don’t spend time setting up HTTPS, or ensuring you redirect from HTTP to HTTPS. Again it’s just a Cloudflare checkbox.
    • Don’t charge anything for your MVP, give it away for free. Don’t setup Stripe or any other payment system.
    • Don’t spend time on design or a logo, use a free landing page template and consider using an emoji for your logo.
    • When registering your domain name, use a provider like Gandi which provides whois privacy for free.
    • Don’t register or setup any social media profiles.
    • Do setup Google Analytics (or similar), its quick and will help you validate your idea.

    Finally, launch as quickly as possible and start spreading the word on HN and PH, if you have created something people want and are willing to pay for, then give yourself permission to improve your MVP and do some of the things above. If not, discard it, or pivot. Good luck!

    Here’s a successful MVP that I’ve built in a weekend using the methods above:

  • How to set PHP memory limit and max execution time in your Dockerfile

    If you want to set the PHP memory limit and/or max execution time to something other than the default, you can do this in your container during build. Use following in your Dockerfile:

    RUN cp /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini-production /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini && \
sed -i -e "s/^ *memory_limit.*/memory_limit = 4G/g" 
-e "s/^ *max_execution_time.*/max_execution_time = 0/g" 
/usr/local/etc/php/php.ini

    The RUN commands above will copy the default production ini file, and then will modify the memory_limit and set it to 4 gigabytes in the ini file. It also sets the max_execution_time to zero, meaning there is no max.

  • Modify Search API sort order in Drupal using a hook

    If you need to change the sort order of the Drupal 7 Search API using code, here is an example using hook_search_api_query_alter:

    function MYMODULE_search_api_query_alter(SearchApiQueryInterface $query) {
    $query->sort('my_field_name', 'DESC');
}

  • How to use a relative path to your JS and CSS in Drupal 7

    By default, Drupal uses an absolute path, and will insert your domain name into the path to your JS and CSS files.

    You can override this, in template.php, like so:

    function YOURTHEME_process_html(&$vars) {

  //convert absolute URLs (https://www...) into relative (/some/path) for JS and CSS only
  foreach (array('scripts','styles') as $replace) {
      if (!isset($vars[$replace])) {
          continue;
      }

      $vars[$replace] = str_replace("https://stage.example.com", '', $vars[$replace]);
      $vars[$replace] = str_replace("https://www.example.com", '', $vars[$replace]);
  }

}

  • Drupal: How to use the Context Module to include javascript on specific pages

    I needed a solution which allowed me to include Optimizely’s A/B testing snippet on certain pages, and have the ability to change those page rules without modifying code.

    I do this using the Context module, I apply a class to the body for a node with the path “demo”, like so:

    Then, in html.tpl.php, in the <head> of my document, I have the following code:

    <?php 
  if (!empty($classes)) {
    if (strpos($classes, 'has-optimizely') !== false) {
      print '<script src="https://cdn.optimizely.com/js/xxxx.js"></script>';
    }
  }
?>

  • Images in Drupal RSS Feed, without additional modules

    There is an easier way to include the image associated with your node in a Drupal Views RSS feed. No additional modules are required.

    Firstly you need to add the Media RSS namespace to your views-view-rss.tpl.php:

    <rss version="2.0" xml:base="<?php print $link; ?>"<?php print $namespaces; ?> xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/">

    Secondly, in the row style template for your RSS feed (mine is called views-view-row-rss–market-news-rss-feed–feed.tpl.php), you need add a media element, and enter your image field name, your image style, and your dimensions:

    <?php

/**
 * @file
 * Default view template to display a item in an RSS feed.
 *
 * @ingroup views_templates
 */
?>
  <item>
    <title><?php print $title; ?></title>
    <link><?php print $link; ?></link>
    <description><?php print $description; ?></description>
    <media:content url="<?php print image_style_url('news_old_style__300x250_', $node->field_image['und'][0]['uri']); ?>" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="250" width="300" lang="en" />
    <?php print $item_elements; ?>
  </item>

    Lastly, make the field data available to the template above by adding the following to your template.php

    function nadex_preprocess_views_view_row_rss(&$vars) {
  $view     = &$vars['view'];
  $options  = &$vars['options'];
  $item     = &$vars['row'];
 
  // Use the [id] of the returned results to determine the nid in [results]
  $result = &$vars['view']->result;
  $id   = &$vars['id'];
  $node   = node_load( $result[$id-1]->nid );
  $vars['node'] = $node;
}

    Thanks to these guys for the inspiration:

  • Drupal: How to access fields in html.tpl.php

    When developing my AMP subtheme for Drupal 7, I wanted to only include the amp-youtube extension if the current page actually contained a YouTube video. The amp-youtube extension javascript can only be included in the HEAD of the HTML document, so in Drupal, your html.tpl.php must know about content which is usually only available at node.tpl.php level. Here is the solution:

    In your template.php

    function MYTHEME_preprocess_html(&$vars) {
    	//we need to know if the page contains a YouTube video, so we create the variable below and reference it in html.tpl.php
    	if ($node = menu_get_object()) {
    		$vars['youtube_video_id'] = $node->field_youtube_video_id;
    	}  
    }

    in your html.tpl.php

    <?php
//include amp-youtube extention if page contains a YT video
if ($youtube_video_id):
?>
    <script async custom-element="amp-youtube" src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0/amp-youtube-0.1.js"></script>
<?php endif;?>

     

  • How to create a valid RSS feed from Drupal using Views

    Creating an RSS feed using the Drupal Views module is easy, but you need to specify the correct date format in order to for it to be valid. Here’s how: