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@KashM on Tab of the Day Slack Bot · 15 days ago

Made my first Slack Bot :)
Its a guitar tab bot, mostly because I kept losing motivation when I didn’t know what to practice. It sends a random tab or a practice tip whenever you run one of its commands.

The hardest part wasn’t even the code, it was getting it to actually understanding how to use Nest to make it live 24/7. However, the guide was pretty useful, and after some trial and error, I was able to get it to work.

Proud that I stuck with the debugging instead of giving up on the requirement, and that I ended up building something I’ll actually use.

To test it, try /tab-of-the-day-ping, /tab-of-the-day-get, and /tab-of-the-day-tip in any channel it’s been added to.

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@KashM on Tab of the Day Slack Bot · 15 days ago

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Yesterday, I completed the other two commands I had in mind (getting a tab, and getting a tip). Today, I spent this session trying to get the bot running 24/7, and it did not go smoothly 😭

I kept getting “fetch failed” errors when the bot tried to connect to Slack, and I spent way too long checking tokens and scopes before I realized it was actually just my school wifi blocking the connection the whole time. Once I moved everything over to Nest and tried again, it connected instantly.
I then set it up as a systemd service so it keeps running on its own and restarts itself if it crashes. And it worked!!
All 3 commands (/tab-of-the-day-ping, /tab-of-the-day-get, /tab-of-the-day-tip) are working now. It’s ready to ship :)))

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@KashM on Tab of the Day Slack Bot · 21 days ago

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I just started building my first Slack Bot!

I love playing guitar, but I always lose motivation when I don’t know what to practice.
So, I built a Slack bot that just gives me a riff to practice, whenever I want, without any thinking required.
I also prefer small riffs over full songs because they’re quick and fun to learn, and made it a bot because I’m already in Slack all the time.

Today, I followed the guide and completed the ping command, as well as starting on the get tab command. Next, I’ll be adding more tabs to the list, and start working on a new command to get practice tips.