bots

Slava (slack-strava) connects a Strava account to a chat and posts a card for every activity, complete with map, pace, and elevation, plus commands like connect, disconnect, sta...

In 2020 Slack introduced granular permissions and has begun enforcing that legacy applications use them. I’ve previously migrated a simple bot to use those in-place, but it has ...

Slack recently introduced granular permissions and is now requiring all new apps to use those. The old apps are called classic apps, and new apps are called … apps. Slack also p...

I made a Slack bot called “Slava” using a more organized and cleanup version of the code that auto-publishes runs from Strava. If you use Slack at work, get your Strava on and h...

Update: I wrote a longer article, “What “S’Up”? Using Triads to Develop Tribal Leadership” on the Artsy Medium blog about this.

I gave a talk entitled “Your First Slack Bot Service” at the inaugural New York City Slack Meetup.

One of the things you have to be aware when writing a bot is disabled integrations and closed connections. The first case is simple - when someone disables a bot integration, Sl...

I made two fun bots, slack-api-explorer and slack-shellbot.

I’ve launched playplay.io, based on my open-source slack-gamebot. It can currently track your ping pong, pool, chess and tic-tac-toe games.

I cooked up a little demo of a Slack bot running on Rails with React, that displays messages that you send to Slack, on a web page.

I’ve extracted and improved upon common code from slack-gamebot and slack-mathbot and made slack-ruby-bot. It’s probably the easiest way to make a Slack bot in Ruby today.

I’ve been recently contributing to slack-pongbot, a node.js Slack bot for setting up ping-pong matches at Artsy.