DailyComic@sh.itjust.worksB to Calvin and Hobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days ago29 February 1988sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1137arrow-down12
arrow-up1135arrow-down1image29 February 1988sh.itjust.worksDailyComic@sh.itjust.worksB to Calvin and Hobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squareMentalEdge@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up47·edit-28 days ago1988 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.
minus-squareA_A@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-26 days agoThanks for your posting robot and for the comics. Please notice the : “…bot will now post two comics…” seems down today.
minus-squareMentalEdge@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 days agoYeah. 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.
minus-squareA_A@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days ago… it might now be skipping ahead (posting for the 6th of March) just in case you didn’t already notice
minus-squaregwilikers@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agoNice. What language did you use to make the bot?
minus-squareMentalEdge@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agoPython, using the pythorhead lib. Makes it all doable in very few lines.
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.
Thanks for your posting robot and for the comics.
Please notice the : “…bot will now post two comics…” seems down today.
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.
… it might now be skipping ahead (posting for the 6th of March)
just in case you didn’t already notice
Nice. What language did you use to make the bot?
Python, using the pythorhead lib.
Makes it all doable in very few lines.