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Re: Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?

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Alerts from some services which I manage are sent to a slack channel, as well as alerts/alarms from systems like datadog.

There exists a bot which will notify an on-call engineer to examine the channel, via a phone-call - This uses a custom scripting language to handle decisions and twilios API to trigger phone-calls.

(Hard to be on-call if you can't get woken up by things breaking; slack messages are too easy to ignore.)

Re: Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?

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post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If there’s one thing that always annoyed me about the Github commit display it’s that… well, it displays commits, and not a much better (if not perfect) metric such as LoC. Depending on the feature or volatility of the branch my own commits can vary wildly in how granular they are.

Definitely. It's not indicative of any sort of quality, which naturally makes it fun to game! I randomized the amount of commits on each day so my graph has varying shades of color!

Missed opportunity to render pixel art in the calendar display.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?

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post #54

I have a bot that every 30 minutes iterates over every comment on the top 25 posts in Reddit /r/all and replies "Mom's spaghetti" to any comment that contains the string "eminem".

How much karma have you gained? ^^

Actually I get more downvotes. People don't seem to find it that funny
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