15. September 2016

My first slack bot

I am still working on picking up some elixir, so when a coworker mentioned that writing a Slack bot is cool, I decided to give that a try. Slack is a bit easier to work with than IRC because the communication is done in JSON so you can skip a step in message parsing.

more

15. September 2016

The World's Simplest IRC Bot - Again

I was talking to a colleague who was expounding about the coolness of elixir. So I thought I should give it a try. In the spirit of doing something non-trivial to learn a new tool, I decided to port over the IRC bot I’ve been working on in go and ruby (which passes my bar for non-triviality).

more

01. September 2016

The World's Simplest IRC Bot

I saw an article on twitter about writing an IRC bot in ruby. It piqued my interest because of nostalgia and because I’m a slack curmudgeon. I believe that IRC has value. I never actually got around to trying the cinch gem that the article recommends, although if I ever need to do anything serious in this realm it wil be the first tool I turn to.

more