Fred Wilson has a short post on the state of chat bots. Surprise, surprise – chat bots haven’t taken over the world. One of the main culprits? Artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing are not there yet. I’m happy to see these posts that combat much of the hype surrounding chat bots and take a …
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DynamoDB and Botkit
I recently built (on top of the Botkit framework) and launched a Slack chat based game, emojination. I started out running emojination on Heroku. It was cheap and fast to get up and running there. Heroku does some really nice things for developers that shields the complexity of Amazon’s AWS. However, once I had emojination …
One little problem setting up Cloudflare SSL via cPanel for a site
I’m not going to give a full tutorial on how to setup Cloudflare SSL for a web site using cPanel for its hosting management. There are better resources for that. However, I did run into an issue that took me a while to track down and I wanted to capture that here in hopes that …
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Calling a Slack Web API method from a slash command app
I’m currently trying to build a little Slack app. The (Botkit based) app is a “slash command” that also needs access to the team and user info Slack web API methods. I ran into a problem where I needed an access token that Botkit stores in its users object store. The issue is that when …
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The one thing I was never told
This is post 7 of 7 in the series “Bicycling: Recovering from being hit by a vehicle” Throwing up blood Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit Lawyer up With (more than) a little help from my friends Let’s get physical It’s just like riding a bike The one thing I was …
It’s just like riding a bike
This is post 6 of 7 in the series “Bicycling: Recovering from being hit by a vehicle” Throwing up blood Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit Lawyer up With (more than) a little help from my friends Let’s get physical It’s just like riding a bike The one thing I was …
Let’s get physical
This is post 5 of 7 in the series “Bicycling: Recovering from being hit by a vehicle” Throwing up blood Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit Lawyer up With (more than) a little help from my friends Let’s get physical It’s just like riding a bike The one thing I was …
With (more than) a little help from my friends
This is post 4 of 7 in the series “Bicycling: Recovering from being hit by a vehicle” Throwing up blood Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit Lawyer up With (more than) a little help from my friends Let’s get physical It’s just like riding a bike The one thing I was …
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Lawyer up
This is post 3 of 7 in the series “Bicycling: Recovering from being hit by a vehicle” Throwing up blood Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit Lawyer up With (more than) a little help from my friends Let’s get physical It’s just like riding a bike The one thing I was …
Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit
This is post 2 of 7 in the series “Bicycling: Recovering from being hit by a vehicle” Throwing up blood Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit Lawyer up With (more than) a little help from my friends Let’s get physical It’s just like riding a bike The one thing I was …
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