1988 was a leap year, which confused the bot since I didn't get the code to account for that quite right. Fixed it, and the bot will now post two comics a day until caught up.
You see kids, back in the days, landline phones were even worse: All the phones in one household would share a single line. Anyone could join the call if they picked up another phone.
Yes, just like a discord voice chat, that's right, except we all hated it whenever more than 1 other person was in a call.
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MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 48 pts · 1y
1988 was a leap year, which confused the bot since I didn't get the code to account for that quite right. Fixed it, and the bot will now post two comics a day until caught up.
A_A@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Thanks for your posting robot and for the comics.
Please notice the : "...bot will now post two comics..." seems down today.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 1y
Yeah. I'm keeping an eye on it. The cronjob is set to run every 12 hours, so it'll be two a day, but not at the same time.
gwilikers@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
Nice. What language did you use to make the bot?
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 1y
Python, using the pythorhead lib.
Makes it all doable in very few lines.
A_A@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
... it might now be skipping ahead (posting for the 6th of March)
just in case you didn't already notice
MikeyU@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 1y
Wow, 2/29/88 was the darkest day of my life. Nice to see it wasn't all bad. Thanks.
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
You see kids, back in the days, landline phones were even worse: All the phones in one household would share a single line. Anyone could join the call if they picked up another phone.
Yes, just like a discord voice chat, that's right, except we all hated it whenever more than 1 other person was in a call.