Support: Daily tips repo

[eddiejaoude]

Description

What about having a community-tips repo, where people can raise issues or a new json file (ideally daily), with a small tip they learned that day to share with the community

Benefits:

• Helps the community and sharing tips
• Helps each person with their GitHub activity and green square 🟩

Note: If a json file, then a GitHub action could update the README with each json file and avoids conflicts

[alrifay]

Green squares 👉 🟩 ✅ 😁

[eddiejaoude]

Thank you @alrifay , I will update my description - I was going to tag you in the brackets where I wrote I know it is a circle .. @alrifay 😂

[stemount]

@eddiejaoude could we use markdown files for this? e.g. we could have a markdown file that would allow us to parse it like

n.b. I can't remember the syntax, but I believe this is how a lot of static site generators work........... something like this...

---
summary: I think EVERYONE should delete 5 lines of their code everyday to reduce bugs.
---

# Example bit of code WITH MARKDOWN SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTING *HOPEFULLY
```typescript
const steveTest = () => {
  return true;
}

More about this

winning

References

• BlahLink
  ```

[stemount]

@eddiejaoude @alrifay clearly this markdown inside a markdown wasn't gonna work very well above, but with markdown, we could parse the "tip" as a summary then you could embed code and references and whatever and click through straight to that MD file (e.g. it would be more like a blog!)

[alrifay]

@stemount You can add markdown inside <pre><code></code></pre> or three ~ instead of three ` or indent the code block with 4 spaces😁

Example 1:
~~~markdown

const steveTest = () => {
    return true;
}

~~~

Example 2:
`````markdown
~~~markdown

const steveTest = () => {
    return true;
}

~~~
`````

Result:

~~~markdown

summary: I think EVERYONE should delete 5 lines of their code everyday to reduce bugs.

Example bit of code WITH MARKDOWN SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTING *HOPEFULLY

const steveTest = () => {
  return true;
}

More about this

winning

References

• BlahLink

~~~

[stemount]

I think EVERYONE should stop being as lazy as I am blaming the markdown formatter ;) @alrifay

[BOLT04]

An update on this topic 😃. @AllanRegush started this development on EddieBot with tips about open source.

This idea can be iterated upon and moved to a different repo like @eddiejaoude suggested on the issue description. In EddieBot, I think we could add a fetch package, to make an HTTP request and get the tips data (JSON or Markdown format), but again this would change with our implementation decision.

In my opinion, I think we could evaluate how many tips and how frequent contributions this will have. My concern is that we overengineer these tips 😅, and the resulting code to make it work is harder for newcomers to reason about.

But please let me know your thoughts as well 👍.

[eddiejaoude]

Keeping it simple for contributors is important, finding that balance is always difficult - but we can make small tweaks and review, therefore if we feel it is getting to complex and no benefit, we can pivot.

I dont think we will know the right answer with trying different things, yes some might be more clear than others, I am all for discussing and trying some options 🤓

[github-actions[bot]]

Stale issue message

[eddiejaoude]

Stalebot lets keep this for now 🤓

[github-actions[bot]]

Stale issue message

[BOLT04]

This has been opened for quite a while. What does everyone think about the current state of this issue?

Maybe we could use GitHub Discussions on this repo, instead of a new repo (at least for starters). We have the Tips & tricks category so I'd say it fits very well in this topic (plus, we still get 🟩 😃).

We could use Discussions to get a feel of how this would work and it's something we can start using today, with markdown support 👍! The downsides IMO are:

• Harder to integrate with EddieBot to show some tips with the ^tips command
• No PRs to improve existing tips

[eddiejaoude]

I think you are right @BOLT04 👍 . Discussions helps us to get moving forwards faster, then we can improve afterwards

[schmelto]

What about a Twitter bot for this which automatically sends the tip of the day as twitter post? 🤔

[Vyvy-vi]

hmm we could do multiple things with the data and link it to all sorts of fun bots and sites 😄 .. I think there was a similar idea in discord chat about this

[eddiejaoude]

@kcoder63 has built a twitter bot, and is open to tweaking it - can you share a link to the repo?

[kcoder63]

Repo of the bot I made?

[eddiejaoude]

Yes please @kcoder63 👍

[kcoder63]

[Repo] (https://github.com/kcoder63/Edbeepbot)
here's the link

[Vyvy-vi]

I think there's still some discussion to be had on this stalebot :)

[BOLT04]

yes I agree @Vyvy-vi 👍