Using an SMS Gateway called 46elks and some Go we can automate a customer feedback process which is usually done manually by calling a customer. This was an idea I had when I worked at a large sales company in Sweden a few years ago and my task was to find things that could be […]
Recently I decided to set up a Pi-hole installation on my local network. Initially I was going to use a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ but the company I work for was replacing all the PCs and I was able to get my hands on one of them. Pi-hole is a simple tool which can be […]
Begin by running the following command to add the golang backports ppa: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:longsleep/golang-backports If you get an error such as “add-apt-repository command not found” then you need to run the following command to install add-apt-repository:
In my previous post I wrote a guide on how to post a simple Slack message using a bot with PHP. Now we will do the same thing but instead with Go. I have also decided to send a json request instead of a form-url encoded request like we did with PHP. There are some […]
I have done a lot of work with slack bots in the past both professionally and in my spare time. In the past I build a plugin for WHMCS called WHMCS Slack which was originally a paid addon but is now open source and available for free on Github. This post is a first part […]
It’s possible to create bots for your Slack channels and workspaces via custom integrations. First you will need to create a bot for your Slack workspace. To do this you need permissions to add a custom configuration. Simply go to your workspace url and add admin at the end as shown in the picture