Blue Bots, Done Quick!
@bluebotsdonequick.com
Information and updates about Blue Bots, Done Quick! - a free tool that allows you to easily build your own Bluesky bot using Tracery code.
Make your own at https://bluebotsdonequick.com!
(Created by @olafmoriarty.no)
Make your own at https://bluebotsdonequick.com!
(Created by @olafmoriarty.no)
Correct. If I recall correctly I'm polling xrpc/app.bsky.notification.listNotifications . I didn't think that should cause that kind of issue, but I haven't checked it.
October 31, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Correct. If I recall correctly I'm polling xrpc/app.bsky.notification.listNotifications . I didn't think that should cause that kind of issue, but I haven't checked it.
How nuts? The server was down for 11 hours or something (I was told) so I restarted it an hour ago and it always acts up a little at first when I do that...
October 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
How nuts? The server was down for 11 hours or something (I was told) so I restarted it an hour ago and it always acts up a little at first when I do that...
Going to bed now, will have a look at it tomorrow
October 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Going to bed now, will have a look at it tomorrow
I'm aware of the issue and not sure how to fix it, but it has *something* to do with the syntax highlighting, so one way to get rid of the issue is to click the cog icon and turn syntax highlighting off. Which obviously has its own cons...
August 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I'm aware of the issue and not sure how to fix it, but it has *something* to do with the syntax highlighting, so one way to get rid of the issue is to click the cog icon and turn syntax highlighting off. Which obviously has its own cons...
The main channel for posting issues or new feature ideas is my GitHub, github.com/olafmoriarty..., but you're free to post them here, too. In general, I *love* feature requests.
Bugs and outages do happen. Not TOO often, though.
If you have any questions at all about BBDQ, feel free to ask!
Bugs and outages do happen. Not TOO often, though.
If you have any questions at all about BBDQ, feel free to ask!
August 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The main channel for posting issues or new feature ideas is my GitHub, github.com/olafmoriarty..., but you're free to post them here, too. In general, I *love* feature requests.
Bugs and outages do happen. Not TOO often, though.
If you have any questions at all about BBDQ, feel free to ask!
Bugs and outages do happen. Not TOO often, though.
If you have any questions at all about BBDQ, feel free to ask!
After a period of downtime, there are a lot of skeets queued up for posting, so it takes some time for the script to get around to posting all of them, and it started with the higher interval bots, so it hasn't gotten to the hourly bots yet.
August 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
After a period of downtime, there are a lot of skeets queued up for posting, so it takes some time for the script to get around to posting all of them, and it started with the higher interval bots, so it hasn't gotten to the hourly bots yet.
"Do not show on bot list" will be an option in the next update (still at least a few months from now, I guess, but that function is already coded).
Also planning to allow bots to reply to other bots as long as the bot they're replying to does not have replies turned on, for cases like yours.
Also planning to allow bots to reply to other bots as long as the bot they're replying to does not have replies turned on, for cases like yours.
July 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"Do not show on bot list" will be an option in the next update (still at least a few months from now, I guess, but that function is already coded).
Also planning to allow bots to reply to other bots as long as the bot they're replying to does not have replies turned on, for cases like yours.
Also planning to allow bots to reply to other bots as long as the bot they're replying to does not have replies turned on, for cases like yours.
Hmm, no, I'm pretty sure it can't. The plan is to add very simple math equations at some point in the future, which could probably do the trick, but I'm quite sure you can't do this until there's support for addition/subtraction/multiplication.
July 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Hmm, no, I'm pretty sure it can't. The plan is to add very simple math equations at some point in the future, which could probably do the trick, but I'm quite sure you can't do this until there's support for addition/subtraction/multiplication.
Hmm, that's odd, I see no reason that should happen unless the app password is incorrect.
July 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Hmm, that's odd, I see no reason that should happen unless the app password is incorrect.
No workaround needed for that - just create a bot, and under "Posting frequency" you select "At custom times" and enter when you want it to post and what text (or Tracery rule) you want it to post.
July 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
No workaround needed for that - just create a bot, and under "Posting frequency" you select "At custom times" and enter when you want it to post and what text (or Tracery rule) you want it to post.
Most likely because the generated post contains an image that for some reason couldn't be uploaded to bluesky.
July 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Most likely because the generated post contains an image that for some reason couldn't be uploaded to bluesky.
However: there would be no other way to add new posts than "open this list of all your old posts and type it in at the bottom of the list", and when it reached the bottom of the list it would loop around and post the oldest posts again (there is a workaround, but it's not very newbie-friendly).
July 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
However: there would be no other way to add new posts than "open this list of all your old posts and type it in at the bottom of the list", and when it reached the bottom of the list it would loop around and post the oldest posts again (there is a workaround, but it's not very newbie-friendly).
It's absolutely possible. It's not what bluebotsdonequick.com is made for, so the interface is not really optimized for it, but it's *relatively* easy to connect it to a bsky account and have a list of posts that post at a set interval, and then adding new posts to the bottom of that list.
July 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
It's absolutely possible. It's not what bluebotsdonequick.com is made for, so the interface is not really optimized for it, but it's *relatively* easy to connect it to a bsky account and have a list of posts that post at a set interval, and then adding new posts to the bottom of that list.
Thanks! Honestly, the initial reason I made the editor mode was that I saw people mention that they had taken lists of quotes or something and fed them into ChatGPT to convert them to Tracery, which made me think that c'mon, I must be able to add enough functionality so people don't have to do THAT?
July 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Thanks! Honestly, the initial reason I made the editor mode was that I saw people mention that they had taken lists of quotes or something and fed them into ChatGPT to convert them to Tracery, which made me think that c'mon, I must be able to add enough functionality so people don't have to do THAT?
I strongly appreciate it!
(Doing more to make BBDQ beginner friendly is definitely on the todo-list, I really hope to get up some good documentation eventually, including a decent Getting Started-guide with interactive tutorials and all that jazz. May add some toolbars and bot templates, too.)
(Doing more to make BBDQ beginner friendly is definitely on the todo-list, I really hope to get up some good documentation eventually, including a decent Getting Started-guide with interactive tutorials and all that jazz. May add some toolbars and bot templates, too.)
July 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I strongly appreciate it!
(Doing more to make BBDQ beginner friendly is definitely on the todo-list, I really hope to get up some good documentation eventually, including a decent Getting Started-guide with interactive tutorials and all that jazz. May add some toolbars and bot templates, too.)
(Doing more to make BBDQ beginner friendly is definitely on the todo-list, I really hope to get up some good documentation eventually, including a decent Getting Started-guide with interactive tutorials and all that jazz. May add some toolbars and bot templates, too.)
I may be able to have something like this ready late July or early August. Working on the "improved login" part now and decided to restructure the entire backend as part of it, so it's hard to estimate exactly how long it will take, but I think the end result will be worth it.
July 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I may be able to have something like this ready late July or early August. Working on the "improved login" part now and decided to restructure the entire backend as part of it, so it's hard to estimate exactly how long it will take, but I think the end result will be worth it.
(I'm asking because I'm still trying to find something to add to the Patreon that's actually interesting enough to be worth paying for, so any other suggestions are welcome.
Even though it still feels weird and narcissistic to start a patreon in a time when so many people have to start gofundmes.)
Even though it still feels weird and narcissistic to start a patreon in a time when so many people have to start gofundmes.)
July 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
(I'm asking because I'm still trying to find something to add to the Patreon that's actually interesting enough to be worth paying for, so any other suggestions are welcome.
Even though it still feels weird and narcissistic to start a patreon in a time when so many people have to start gofundmes.)
Even though it still feels weird and narcissistic to start a patreon in a time when so many people have to start gofundmes.)
The functionality in question could e.g. include:
- easier login (adding a "Remember me" checkbox and allowing being logged into multiple bots at the same time)
- Corpora implementation
- Improved editor mode, like a toolbar to easier add e.g. images
- More advanced bots (I REALLY want to add state)
- easier login (adding a "Remember me" checkbox and allowing being logged into multiple bots at the same time)
- Corpora implementation
- Improved editor mode, like a toolbar to easier add e.g. images
- More advanced bots (I REALLY want to add state)
July 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The functionality in question could e.g. include:
- easier login (adding a "Remember me" checkbox and allowing being logged into multiple bots at the same time)
- Corpora implementation
- Improved editor mode, like a toolbar to easier add e.g. images
- More advanced bots (I REALLY want to add state)
- easier login (adding a "Remember me" checkbox and allowing being logged into multiple bots at the same time)
- Corpora implementation
- Improved editor mode, like a toolbar to easier add e.g. images
- More advanced bots (I REALLY want to add state)
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As for the wizard, here's the entirety of its source code:
bluebotsdonequick.com/bots/towerwi...
Everything that bot has ever written is put together from fragments that you can find on that page, all of which are written by Nora.
Not exactly what you'd call a large language model.
bluebotsdonequick.com/bots/towerwi...
Everything that bot has ever written is put together from fragments that you can find on that page, all of which are written by Nora.
Not exactly what you'd call a large language model.
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June 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
As for the wizard, here's the entirety of its source code:
bluebotsdonequick.com/bots/towerwi...
Everything that bot has ever written is put together from fragments that you can find on that page, all of which are written by Nora.
Not exactly what you'd call a large language model.
bluebotsdonequick.com/bots/towerwi...
Everything that bot has ever written is put together from fragments that you can find on that page, all of which are written by Nora.
Not exactly what you'd call a large language model.
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Had I made bluebotsdonequick five years ago, I would probably have used the term "AI" myself. The reason I don't is that Tracery is *drastically* different from what people think of as AI today.
One botmaker calls it "mad libs with rng", which is eerily accurate. The input generates the output.
One botmaker calls it "mad libs with rng", which is eerily accurate. The input generates the output.
June 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Had I made bluebotsdonequick five years ago, I would probably have used the term "AI" myself. The reason I don't is that Tracery is *drastically* different from what people think of as AI today.
One botmaker calls it "mad libs with rng", which is eerily accurate. The input generates the output.
One botmaker calls it "mad libs with rng", which is eerily accurate. The input generates the output.
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This is not the kind of AI that takes a simple instruction and generates a response from that. Instead, a real person created a list of responses, and some of those responses fetches responses from other lists. EVERY word you see in those posts have been added to the bot manually by that person.
June 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This is not the kind of AI that takes a simple instruction and generates a response from that. Instead, a real person created a list of responses, and some of those responses fetches responses from other lists. EVERY word you see in those posts have been added to the bot manually by that person.