Text Bots I’ve Made

AffirmationsBot

Affirmations Bot sends out a positive affirmation daily from a corpus of several hundred affirmations. Ongoing. Submissions welcome.
- (@affirmations@thisbot.day) on Mastodon/Fediverse (2023-)
- @thisbot.day on BlueSky (2025-)
In February of 2025 I’ll be hosting the IndieWeb Carnival with the prompt of “affirmations.” I’d love to read what you think about affirmations on your website or blog.

BloggingBot sent out daily sentences generated based on a corpus of 17 years of ArtLung blog.
Background: I blogged for 17 years and all I got were these lousy Markov Chains
Sources:
- jsvine/markovify for the generative code
- BloggingBot original source, on GitHub
- Web view: BloggingBot on lab.artlung.com (current source)
~~@bloggingbot~~ on X, formerly Twitter (2018-2020)
Fun fact! I also created an Instagram account for it. Posted just once.

Ventcheck sent out whimsical and nonsensical sentences based on random vocabulary hashtagged with locations in San Diego. Partly based on my 2013 web toy: Random Cells
Background: Ventcheck, a twitterbot I wrote in 2016
Sources:
- Ventcheck source, on Cheap Bots, Done Quick!
- Created at San Diego Code Kitchen from this source template
- Random Cells source on lab.artlung.com
~~@ventcheck~~ on X, formerly Twitter (2016-2020)