I am starting a few new projects this year. The first one I am ready to talk about is written in Go, because Rob Pike said so.
Ami-go is a personal discord assistant. Currently, I use it to harass me on Discord to make sure I make a commit a day on my personal projects. But I have bigger plans for it:
- Configurability via a config file
- Online message-based configurability when server is active
- Accountability tracking via interactions with discord messages
- Conversational widgets/interactions that promote self development
I’ll update this blog when I make major updates (I’ll have ami-go remind me lol). In the meantime, this is how I use it in its current state:
- Make a developer account in Discord and get yourself an BOT key.
- Figure out the channelID you want the bot to post a reminder (given an BOT api key, the ami-go cli can list out the available channels, assuming you invited the BOT to your personal discord server).
- With this info, you can run the cli command:
ami-go -channel <CHANNEL_ID> -guild <GUILD_ID> -t <BOT_TOKEN> -message "A commit a day keeps the imposter syndrome away!"I add this command to a bash script and put it in a cronjob on my raspberry pi. But given its operability via a CLI and a server, the possibilities are endless.