I'm incredibly lucky to be both healthy and able to work from home during this coronavirus crisis. That means I spend large chunks of my day on video calls.
As a courtesy to my family, all of whom are also working and schooling from home, I've tried to warn them when they risk being broadcast to my colleagues.
Now I have a fun "on air" light to help! And I've put the code online so you can make one, too.
I learned a lot this week:
I also used some that new knowledge to write a little program that pulls the title, lead image and date from pages like the one you’re reading right now.
But I didn’t make anything, really. Except a base to build upon.
So while I don’t have a cool thing to post just now, I’m glad for what I’ve learned.
Including the fact that this year has 53 weeks.
#MakeEveryWeek is a challenge to myself to do just that for all of 2015. The original post on the idea is here, and the running list of projects so far is here.
We never know where to get lunch.
Oh, we know where we can go. But the moment our team steps outside, no one can answer “Where should we go?”
So for my second #MakeEveryWeek project, I made a bot to pick a place.
At work, we use Slack to message each other. A feature of Slack allows other programs to post messages in our chat windows using “incoming webhooks” — web addresses that accept data and then pass it into a Slack window.
Any computer on the internet can use the incoming webhook, you just need to know your team's secret webhook URL. Which I do. :-)