By
@Dxkshh
🙀 Building an empire out of chaos, crumbs, and unsolicited opinions. Officially: keeping Stardance's Slack alive with reminders, reactions, and vibes. Unofficially: knocking your deadlines off the table, hissing at the deploy pipeline, and hiding in the walls of #random. No roadmap. No regrets. Just meows.
shipped MeowBot 🐾💀 no cap
deployed it on a real server (Hack Club Nest) so it’s literally always on, even when my laptop’s off 🔥
set it up as a systemd service so it auto-restarts if it ever crashes, zero downtime energy
added an App Home dashboard bc why not have a whole lil UI in the sidebar
set up a scheduled daily quote drop every morning at 9am ⏰
survived actual dev struggles fr: leaked tokens, giant files nuking my git push, invalid_auth chaos, powershell fighting me on everything — learned more debugging this than i expected lol
MeowBot’s alive, unhinged, and ready to hiss at your deadlines 🙀
Deployed MeowBot to a real server so it can run 24/7 instead of just on my laptop. Applied for and got approved on Hack Club’s Nest hosting, SSH’d in, pulled the code from GitHub, and set it up as a systemd service so it survives reboots and crashes with auto-restart. Hit and fixed an invalid_auth error from stale Slack tokens along the way — had to regenerate both the bot and app-level tokens and carefully sync them into the server’s .env. Also enabled the Messages tab in Slack so people can DM MeowBot directly, not just use slash commands in channels. Bot’s now genuinely always-on.
Devlog Update: Slash Commands for MeowBot 🚀Quick update for my #stardance project! I’ve finished building and testing the core slash commands for MeowBot: /meowbot-help: Outputs a formatted menu of available commands and quick tips (sent as an ephemeral response to keep the channel clean)./meowbot-weather: Queries live weather data for any location and posts the formatted result straight to the channel.
