Your Little Pony is a collection of My Little Pony screens from Season 1 and Season 2. Plus some scripts, which help you post those screens wherever you want.
Why not? Ponies are cool! Pinkie Pie is the most awesome of all! So tell me why not?
If you need a justification, though. I know that the developers in my team work really really hard. Unfortunately, the immense brain activity always results in huge amounts of stress. Ponies here are a "comic relief", a coping mechanism to relieve tension and reduce the amount of stress everyone is experiencing.
I have a Slack app, which posts to #pony_of_the_day channel three times a day, saying "Good morning" at 9am, asking if the channel members had already had a lunch around noon and wishing the perfect rest of the day at 5pm. I hope this brings a smile to the members of #pony_of_the_day faces and they feel a little bit better every time they see a pony.
Installation is siple. Do git clone and you're ready to go.
Right now there is only one script, which posts to Slack.
You absolutely must create and configure a Slack App before you can post images to Slack. A good starting point is Your Slack Apps, the rest is in their documentation, please refer to that.
Then you must copy slack.config.dist to slack.config and manually set up all the values.
The slack script has only one optional parameter, which is the image comment. If you do not provide one, then the one in CONFIG[message] is used as fall back.
[akarshin@localhost yourlittlepony]$ ./slack ### This will send the defaul message, which is "Pony Of The Day!" or whatever you set up
[akarshin@localhost yourlittlepony]$ ./slack "Good morning!" ### This will send "Good morning!"
After you're done with installation, you can set up cron, which could call the slack script, for a bit of automation. Otherwise you'd have to run the script manually.
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