diff --git a/RELEASING.md b/RELEASING.md
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--- a/RELEASING.md
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-# Releasing
-
-## dev release
-```
-# run the tests
-shadow-cljs compile test
-
-# release the app
-shadow-cljs release app
-chmod a+x mastodon-bot.js
-
-# publish to npm
-mkdir -p target/npm-build/mastodon_bot
-cp mastodon-bot.js target/npm-build/mastodon_bot/
-cp target/mastodon-bot.js.sha256 target/npm-build/mastodon_bot/
-cp target/mastodon-bot.js.sha512 target/npm-build/mastodon_bot/
-cp package.json target/npm-build/mastodon_bot/
-cp README.md target/npm-build/mastodon_bot/
-npm publish ./target/npm-build --access public
-```
-
-## stable release (should be done from master)
-```
-shadow-cljs compile test
-
-#adjust [version]
-vi package.json
-
-git commit -am "releasing"
-git commit -am [version]
-git push --follow-tags
-
-# Bump [version]
-vi package.json
-
-git commit -am "version bump" && git push
-
-
-# trigger deploy
-git tag [version]
-git push --tags
-```
diff --git a/release.sh b/release.sh
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-#!/bin/bash
-npx shadow-cljs release app
-shasum -a 512 mastodon-bot.js > mastodon-bot.js.sha256
-shasum -a 512 mastodon-bot.js > mastodon-bot.js.sha512
-rm -rf target/npm-build/mastodon-bot
-mkdir -p target/npm-build/mastodon-bot
-cp mastodon-bot.js target/npm-build/mastodon-bot/
-cp target/mastodon-bot.js.sha256 target/npm-build/mastodon-bot/
-cp target/mastodon-bot.js.sha512 target/npm-build/mastodon-bot/
-cp package.json target/npm-build/mastodon-bot/
-cp README.md target/npm-build/mastodon-bot/
-npm publish ./target/npm-build/mastodon-bot --access public