Some of you were interested in what I was learning code wise.

So a lot of you were asking what I've been doing code wise, and how I've been getting on. It has been quite the discussion on discord and over twitter. Funnily enough I was hit by my own community that none of them care that I'm learning -- which I mean is fair, to get really good at this they will probably have to wait several years for me.

But it's a skill worth having so I thought I'd hook myself up with visual studio code and some node.js. Thankfully @klye has been there with me holding my hand. He's a pretty good helper.

One thing I wanted to do was to learn how to connect discord bots to the blockchain. I had achieved a lot of discord coding in the past when I did some jobs for @neoxian but it seems I could never ever work out the connection between blockchain and web2.

@klye showed me, and I realised it was far too complicated for my little mind to handle right now so I decided to give myself a smaller project and build it out from there.

First of all I decided to make a small discord bot that would reply to my pings in chat. I've done this before so it wasn't particularly hard.

I'm not going to show you this code because it's pretty silly showing a market full of coders my ping / pong attempts. It's like the first thing you learn after "Hello world!" - or at least at the same time.

Anyway, my next attempt was to get my bot to insult random people on my test discord as a way to teach myself how to get working with the modules part. Believe it or not I want to be a tidy coder, and part of that would be to not have my index.js file full of crap so that it takes me hours to find what I'm looking for if I'm ever needing to search for something.

So my index.js file looks something a bit like this. Bear in mind that I had help from an assistant that hooks onto my visual studio code.

If you inspect this code you will see that it does several things:

• My bot waits for a message containing the phrase that it recognizes and switches the read to lower-case so that there are no mistakes. I opted to just go for a simple !insult instead of putting my operator in the .env file because I've already learned how to do that and my focus wasn't on that.

• So you'll notice that the code recognises the username that is mentioned along with the prefix and action word and stores it.

• Then it checks my other .js file to see if there is anything it can use here:

• Then it takes these phrases (I was planning for more but I was in a hurry so I only thought of three) and makes sure they haven't been used in the last 20 turns. I asked the helper to do this one for me because I am still at this moment trying to figure out the "Math.floor" segment.

• Then after that, it pushes the nicePhrase into the mentioned users DM

I had a lot of help with this one through the added assistant, but it was enjoyable doing it, and I think I have finally got my head around exporting modules now which was one that has eluded me for quite a while.

I'm still basic, but if I do just a few hours per day I'll definitely get my head around it I think. It's about time I finally learned how to do this stuff because I've always wanted to.