Welcome to YAML Rambl, where I’ll be posting about various projects I’m working on and technologies I’m learning!
I hope that these will serve as useful examples to some people who are looking for answers on “how to do X.” I know there are a million coding blogs out there, but when I’m searching for an answer on how to do something and it’s difficult to figure out, I thought it would be useful to put it out on the internet in case it can help the next person.
Over the coming weeks I’ll mostly be posting first about PaywallBot. It’s a silly project for fun that’s simple in concept: it adds emoji responses and replies to someone if they post a link from a site that’s been flagged as a “paywall” on a Discord server.
This project pulls together a number of different concepts I’ve been working with over the past year as I attempt to broaden my horizons, which include:
- Basic Python programming
- AWS SDK usage (specifically the Python Boto3 API)
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS SSM Parameter Store
- Docker
- Discord API
You can view the source code on https://github.com/gmlyth/paywallbot , but more info to come soon!