On this day in 2015, my friend Stewart invited me up on stage to announce the availability of Botkit at the official Slack Platform launch event. Who could have guessed back then that chatbots would be such a big thing now…?

Me, that’s who!!

If you want a copy of my book by next Tuesday or Wednesday, order in the next hour or so before I ship the next batch of orders :)

https://shop.benbrown.com/

Let's do a Fiction Quest play test, woo!

Come try out the ai-assisted text adventure game I've been building on nights and weekends. It's fun and weird and retro and futuristic all at once!

You can join in for the next few hours for free! If you like it, consider joining the Patreon which gives you access to the game world all the time.

See you in the game! (I'm Zeb)

https://play.fiction.quest/

Yall, the Twitter archiver that @darius made is seriously bonkers. You give it the zip file from Twitter, and it generates a magical website that you can host that contains EVERY TWEET you ever twot and you can search them instantly and view them and share them and they show up with previews LIKE A PRO.

https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/

Here is mine that I made it took about 3 seconds:

https://benbrown.com/twitter/

I made a three minute little demo video of my fediverse server. If you are interested in what it looks like, check it out here:

https://www.loom.com/share/6badbdc6b45f4bf8b0eba293103e9246

This is a stand-alone node app that speaks ActivityPub. It has an ActivityPub API interface, a public profile, and also a browsing interface to interact with people you follow.