Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 13:32
i’m thinking a little of making a mailbot to bust newswalls and paste content in. now that everyone’s left (uhh?), maybe it will get easier
the big showstopper is having a server to run it on, and the surprise is that i actually have 1-3 servers i think that i am paying for monthly, i just forget that i have them really aggressively (hence the high number 3).
so if i assume i have a server already, maybe i could start working on something. i’m thinking i might feel less scared if i stayed off github, unsure (thinking maybe of posting occasional codeballs here instead unsure — occasional! concise!)
the frequency of the list is small enough to use python i think, which is my most recent language
uhhhh so parts could include - fetching email - using websites - sending email
traditionally it’s the second item that’s the hardest, as well as the most interesting.
maybe i could try a high level stub approach.
since success seems unlikely soon, maybe instead i’ll look up new python threading paradigms
i think it would make sense to use asyncio because python’s stock debugger doesn’t handle threads and processes well, and the workload is limited to 24/(person? maybe when i posted under another email address the ratelimiter caught a google header showing it was the same owner. i could test this for rationality)/day 1349 1354 whoooo! i th— anyway it seems you could just make a basic asyncio app, and then throw it into systemd or such if desired. data pumps could be queue objects.