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@@ 100,3 100,9 @@ footer {
max-width: 80ch;
margin: auto;
}
+
+.alert {
+ padding: 1rem;
+ background-color: #9B1C27;
+ color: #FDAFB5;
+}
M content/blog/discord_go_bot.md => content/blog/discord_go_bot.md +19 -0
@@ 5,6 5,25 @@ date = "2021-06-08"
aliases = ["/blog/post/discord_go_bot/"]
+++
+<div class="alert">
+ This post was written in 2021. I don't condone the use of Discord for any
+ purpose whatsoever. Use open platforms that don't censor their user base at
+ will.<br />
+ The article remains online for archival purposes but should not be followed
+ for ethical reasons.
+ <br />
+ <p>
+ Free and open source alternatives that respect the user include, but are
+ not limited to:
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="https://matrix.org">Matrix</a></li>
+ <li><a href="https://signal.org">Signal</a></li>
+ <li>IRC</li>
+ <li>XMPP</li>
+ </ul>
+ </p>
+</div>
+
About a month ago I decided to get into Go a bit. It's always kind of been an interesting programming language since it's modern, simple and has quite powerful multi-threading capabilities, most of which I have yet to use. I was asked if I could program a Discord bot that would print the weekly Covid-19 incidence numbers in Germany and I thought that's a great idea, so here we are.
You can find the source code for this bot [here](https://github.com/Witcher01/discord_covid19). I thought I'd share it since I put in a bit of work recently.