June 17, 2025
In the wake of Hackclub's move away from Salesforce, I thought it would be nice to have a service that changes the colour of my PFP throughout the day. So here it is... about 2hours later I have a GitHub action that updates my profile picture with a new colour every 5 minutes. I might add more features later but this is it for now.
A simple python script that integrates with GitHub actions to change the colour of your Slack profile picture over the course of a day.
Initial conception and implementation
So far I have a dominant frequency graph with mire to come...
A mobile app to help audio engineers diagnose problems
A portable tool to test XLR3 cables.
MVP Done!!!
The groundwork has been laid, and whilst this is by no means a finished product. It is usable...
This has been an interesting journey, I (stupidly) started off in python, so at some point I'm going to have to translate to Node.js.
The app exposes three slack commands: /ysws filter:[filter] sort:[sort]
, /hackathons filter:[filter] sort:[sort] modality:[modality]
, and /events filter:[filter] sort:[sort] type:[type]
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Anyway on my todo list is:
-[] Notify the user when new programs arise.
-[] provide details on specific events by slug/id/slack channel
-[] allow the user to sort/filter using dropdown menus.
That's all from me for now,
Happy coding :}
This is my first time creating a RESTful API, I'm using Appwrite for the backend because students get it free (you should sign up).
The aim is a slack bot that notifies the user when new hackathons/ysws programs become available. As well as responding to slash commands like /list-ysws.
Unfortunately I'm constrained by python in developing this due to appwrite's server side function environment. Python is very much different from Swift, my main driver, which is structured and typed.
Anyway, I've got both /list endpoints working. Onto /details and responding to POST.
Happy coding :)
A Slack app to keep you up to date with Hackclub's YSWS programs, events and hackathons.
Hi everyone Josh here.
I've just been working away onCue in the background, ticking some things off the list.
Big news, onCue now supports .pdf and .txt import! So, as part of that I've been writing some unit tests to ensure it all runs smoothly.
On another note, the error handling is now user facing, so that means the app shouldn't (fingers crossed) crash on the user inexplicably.
Apart from that I've just been modularising the code base; abstractions and the luck.
Anyway, that's all for me.
Happy coding,
Josh
This was widely regarded as a great move by everyone.