I've been tinkering with tmi.js (Twitch's messaging interface) in node as of late, and it occurred to me: the library works in the browser, as well! With this in my back pocket, I went off and built a tiny little chat bot as an experiment. The bot responds with a random "thank you" emote …
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My daughter deserves better
I'll be honest–I don't want to write this post, and for a multitude of reasons. Namely, I don't want to write this post because writing this post crystallizes the fact that this post needs to be written. I also feel just so wholly inadequate to put text on a screen regarding such an important …
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Track change events for YouTube with MutationObserver
Have you ever wanted to react to events taking place on a web page, but they aren't capital-e Events that you can catch and handle? I was in this situation recently, where I wanted to grab the current video and chapter titles to display on my Twitch stream. YouTube isn't going to provide you with …
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Rate limiting with Flask-SocketIO
I've been transitioning the API for a Flask project I'm working on away from REST and toward Socket.IO. In doing so, I came to the abrupt and depressing realization that the rate-limiter I had been using for the REST endpoints (flask-limiter) was unable to apply to Socket.IO endpoints. The author …
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Aethersprite: a Discord bot framework
For some months, I had been tinkering with the discord.py library and slowly building up a bot for use in Nexus Clash faction servers. The more I added to it, the more I began to realize that what I was really building was a bot framework, and that framework just so happened to have some commands …
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Vue.js long-press directive
I was looking for an easy way to incorporate the "long press" event so popular in mobile UI into a web project of mine. In my searching, I came a cross a Vue directive that claimed to do the trick. Well, it certainly did, but I had a few reservations: It was TypeScript. I only want to be …