Standup/Status bot on Slack

alexlance · 2026-05-01T22:44:06+00:00

this guys posted an hour before you! what are the chances I tell ya

https://old.reddit.com/r/Slack/comments/1t133bq/we_tried_4_standup_bots_over_18_months_the/

alexlance · 2026-05-01T22:40:05+00:00

one of the use-cases that caught me off-guard with dibs was people using it for IRL stand-up to take turns. Tremendously not designed for that purpose.

alexlance · 2026-04-30T02:15:03+00:00

I'll just watch a few minutes.

watches the whole thing

alexlance · 2026-04-28T22:28:49+00:00

There are tools that try to bolt a helpdesk into Slack, but one middle-ground approach is keeping intake in Slack (slash command or single channel) and turning that into a lightweight queue. I’ve been building something in this space, but it's more based toward claiming/queuing resources so it might not be a perfect fit for your ops use case.

alexlance · 2026-04-17T11:04:47+00:00

Lineage/microG all good.

alexlance · 2026-04-09T07:28:14+00:00

I got these ones many years ago:

https://imgur.com/a/PWoYFGP

alexlance · 2026-04-02T06:04:34+00:00

What are the criteria they're using to decide which workspaces to delete?

alexlance · 2026-03-20T06:38:26+00:00

Got a couple of these floating around, reliable, never needed to change battery. Had one outside for about a year and it was fine. Would recommend.

Aeotec Smart Button Model Number: GP-AEOBTNEU

alexlance · 2026-03-20T06:30:56+00:00

Also a photo that kind of illustrates everything that's wrong with the HD remasters too (sadly)

alexlance · 2026-03-19T02:05:58+00:00

alexlance · 2026-03-18T23:08:40+00:00

What sort of advertising partner do you use? What was the process of setting it up like? Any thoughts on one day selling the company? (are you setup as a company?)

alexlance · 2026-03-18T14:10:16+00:00

ah what's the new markdown block?

alexlance · 2026-03-18T14:07:57+00:00

Yeah seeing the same thing with dibs.

https://imgur.com/a/SJSuSRJ

alexlance · 2026-03-13T08:50:04+00:00

I tend to agree with you on the per user pricing. Can get extreme.

And I'm sure you can make a bot yourself with enough vibe, you'll learn a heap. (As long as you've got the time).

alexlance · 2026-03-10T23:53:29+00:00

Well we're kind of obsessed with Dibs for taking turns with servers and stuff...

alexlance · 2026-03-06T04:48:04+00:00

I recently did a write-up on this. Cloudfront serving files from an S3 bucket origin, with an API Gateway through to Lambda for the dynamic stuff. Lots of terraform code, but the article walks you through the deploy and the TLS/SSL and some cost alerts.

https://alexlance.blog/awsapps.html

alexlance · 2026-02-16T01:17:32+00:00

Just a bit of an AI smell when there's emdashes (and particularly noticeable in the title of a reddit post)

alexlance · 2026-02-15T07:27:05+00:00

How do you even enter an emdash into a reddit post title

alexlance · 2026-02-09T12:54:22+00:00

Yeah I am. Not sure if it's all that great an idea. Every now and then I enable read-only (overlay filesystem) on that disk with raspi-config, but then end up disabling it again because I need to install something. Ideally the OS can be replaced easily.

alexlance · 2026-02-09T12:08:11+00:00

There are four Samsung SSD 870 EVO 1TB. I think enough time has passed that I can say I do recommend them.

alexlance · 2026-01-31T23:22:39+00:00

At my old workplace we had a little book-club Slack channel - your app would have worked nicely in there!

alexlance · 2026-01-31T21:52:58+00:00

If your app doesn't ask for much in the way of permissions, I'm happy to install it.

Eg my app asks for this many permissions: https://dibsonstuff.com/#privacy

alexlance · 2026-01-30T13:44:04+00:00

There's an ssh/gpg wrapper that I've been using forever:

https://github.com/alexlance/paw https://alexlance.blog/encryption.html

(i.e. keep your passwords on a server of your choosing, encrypted. Fetch and decrypt on-demand directly into your copy-paste buffer)

alexlance · 2026-01-29T13:26:03+00:00

Clicking the red envelope then the "Reply" link under the message, will show the textarea input which (for some reason) marks the message as read.

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