Stefan

Hi!

My name is Stefan [stefn] and I'm Botwiki editor-in-chief and Botmakers community manager. I also wrote the first 32 issues of Bot! zine.

You can reach me at stefan@botwiki.org, on Twitter, or check out fourtonfish.com for more of my personal projects.

My blog posts

Poll: Technical background of creative botmakers

Making online bots: not a rocket science!

Trump bots: Where are they now?

No, not that kind of bots.

Poll: Bot survival rate

It's 2021. Where are your bots now?

Poll: Do you follow the bots you make?

Do botmakers follow their bots?

Poll: What are your favorite bots to follow?

Results are in: people love to look at pictures!

2015-2018: The Golden Age of botmaking

Reminiscing and looking ahead.

My bots

Random bots from Botwiki

Explore Botwiki one random bot at a time.

Views from New York

Views from the great city of NYC 🗽

New on Botwiki

See what's new on Botwiki! Yes, this very site.

Hello, world!

Hello from around the world.

Untitled Artist

A generative art bot inspired by the work of Mark Rothko and Benjamin Kovach.

@southpoleviews

Views from the South Pole.

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adventure animated antarctic api archive art bartleby belong belongio bills block bots botsin-space botwiki calendar chart charts cheapbotsdonequick city collections colorful community countries country data data-visualization dataviz date earth emoji encouragement event experimental flags fourtonfish game generative gif gifs glitch google-maps government graph graphs happy hello herman-melville holidays hypnosis hypnotic images inactive interactive introspective jackson-pollock javascript language literature love map maps monitor new-york nodejs non-english nyc painter paintings pirates political poll polls positive rain random rivescript screenshots sea south-pole status status-withheld template tracery treasure twitter twitter-api twitter-polls united-states us-government usap useful view views weather web-scraping webcam webcams whats-new world worst

My resources

Introduction to Mastodon bots

A beginner's guide to making bots that run on Mastodon.

How to use cron-job.org to run your bots hosted on Glitch

Using cron-job.org to periodically wake up your Glitch-hosted bots.

Creative Bots: Project Template

Starter project for making creative online bots.

How to Make a Mastodon Bot: The Definitive Guide

Learn how to make creative Mastodon bots with Botwiki.

How to make a Mastodon (botsin.space) app/bot

Step-by-step guide on creating a bot app on botsin.space.

How to create a Twitter app

First step in the journey of making your own Twitter bot.

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