Botwiki Updates #17

If you wrote a helpful tutorial that shows how to make a bot, you can now apply for the Bot Teacher badge!

And don’t forget, you still have two weeks to enter this month’s Monthly Bot Challenge!

Bots, libraries and resources

• @_emo_ji turns images into emoji portraits
• @wdywam will give you that medal you deserve
• @star_archives tweets “histories of dead planets”
• @ColorTestBot simulates various forms of color blindness
• @annotobot tweets links to documents recently annotated with @hypothes_is
• @PickDinner will help you decide were to eat
• @everylotchicago, @everylotsf and @everylotla let you explore every lot in Chicago, San Francisco, and LA, respectively
• twitter-list-timeline-slackbot is a Python script that pulls tweets from a Twitter list timeline and posts them to a Slack channel
• skflow provides a simplified interface for TensorFlow
• and telegram-bot-bash is a Telegram bot for your command line

Reading list

• With Quartz’s App, You Don’t Read the News. You Chat With It(wired.com)
• The 60-Second Interview: Quartz news app team (capitalnewyork.com)
• “One of the key trends we’d identified in the @activateinc Outlook was messaging as the core UI for new apps: ” (Anil Dash via twitter.com, link to tweet and the slides)
• Diffbot Aims To Build The Intel Of Data For Artificial Intelligence(techcrunch.com)
• Your.MD, World’s First AI Personal Health Assistant now Available on Global Messaging Services (andhranews.net)
• Virtual assistants: They’re made out of people! (computerworld.com)
• Guide to Chat Apps (Tow Center via gitbook.com)
• Machine Learning – A gentle & structured introduction(blog.cambridgecoding.com)
• Machines of Loving Grace (Josh Engroff via medium.com)
• Slack is turning two! (slackhq.com)

Events

Amazing Teams is an event hosted by Slack in San Francisco for “teams who use Slack (or the Slack-curious) to celebrate and share ideas that make our working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive.”

Learn more on the event’s page.

Also, Abandon Normal Devices is hosting Art of Bots in London and online from April 14-16.