joke-sender

Sends an SMS with a random joke from the top 5,000 posts in r/ProgrammerDadJokes.

My dentist started using Linux

Now he won't stop talking about how I need to use more FOSS

Getting the Jokes

This repo contains a Node script in the joke-getter folder that uses the Reddit API to request entries from r/ProgrammerDadJokes, sorted by all time top posts.

The script skips posts that are not "self-contained", which means the post text is not the entire contents of the joke (images, videos, etc). The script runs until it finds 5,000 jokes, which are written to a jokes.json file.

You can find the resulting jokes.json file in this repo at /joke-sender/files/jokes.json.

Sending the Jokes

The joke-sender folder in this repo is a Application Template for the Losant IoT Platform. This template contains the workflow that pulls a random joke from jokes.json and sends it via SMS.

If you want to use this template yourself:

1. Zip the jokes-sender folder.
2. Use Losant's Application Import and upload the zip.

Disclaimer: I work for Losant.

Some More Jokes

What do you call importing a newly released Java package?

Robbing the Gradle.

I am declaring a war

var war;

Why did the node dev give up acting?

The callbacks were hell.

What do you get when you drop a Linux box in boiling oil?

Kentucky Fried Kernel