Ross of OttawaApr 14

My goal this morning was to dig up my old Mastodon bot code and try to remember how I was doing my fun little auto-tooters.

My attempt to register an acct on a bot-focussed instance has stalled. I think the instance is only lightly maintained and acct approvals take weeks or more.

#botsForFun

Show threadRoss of OttawaApr 14

My two most recent bots on the old "bots in space" instance were one that found the biggest word in a NYTimes article and then tooted a definition of the word.

The other one would build a weird (often funny) sentence with a random generator working through parts of speech. (no LLMs involved).

I had a third bot that operated in locked mode just to give me updates from our home automation system.

Show threadRoss of OttawaApr 14

Doing an update of my stale #VSCodium app via #homeBrew. Haven't done much coding lately, sadly with so many things going on.

That hashtag likely brings up as many beer-brewing references as software package-manager mentions – as both are pretty squarely in the Mastodon-patron demographic. 🤣

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Fingers crossed that #VSCodium remains untainted by the AI vibecoding plague.
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@ottaross I didn’t know this existed - nice, just replaced my VS Code. (And it’ll feel right at home with librewolf and ungoogled-chromium!)
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Show threadRoss of OttawaApr 14
@iusetheinternet nice! It's a great project.