added dev instructions

README.md

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 # toota-palooza
 
-Python program to fill a mastodon timeline with randomized toots.
+Python program to fill a mastodon timeline with randomized toots.
+
+# Setting up a Dev environment
+
+So you want to run this yourself, eh?
+
+You need:
+1. A bot account on an instance. Go create one. Do **not** enable MFA on it.
+2. Python
+
+## Python prep
+
+
+1. Check out the code. Build it and install it in your working environment.
+  1. If you have the `build` package for python, you can run `pyproject-build`
+  2. Alternatively you can run `pip install -r requirements.txt`
+  3. Assuming your current working directory is the root of this repository, install into your build environment with `pip install -e .`
+2. Copy the `example.env` file to a file named `.env` in the root of this repo.
+3. Edit that `.env` file to contain all the secrets!
+
+## Initialise your Mastodon app
+
+This is a one-time thing you do ever. First time you go to run the bot in a new environment where it hasn't run before.
+
+1. Find `toota-palooza/__init__.py` and edit it
+2. Edit the lines to uncomment them and change any values you need to (like app name and server)
+3. Run it one time (e.g., `python __init__.py`). It should just exit, creating the file.
+4. Edit the file and comment the lines out again. You just do that once.
+
+# Running
+
+Assuming everything is up to date, all your files initialised with correct values, you can just run `toota-palooza`.
+
+Currently it runs once, does its stuff, and exits.