Rin and Kumiko have been projects I have been working on for a long long time. And unfortunately, I may or may not have the time to commit to the amount of work that is needed for these projects. Both Rin and Kumiko are OSS, which means you are using it for $0, and No767 doesn't own you anything. Kumiko has updates stalled by Rin, since Rin V2 will be releasing fairly soon. It's been a very massive undertaking for me to handle these, and along with like 3 other projects + APs + other stuff. So TD;LR, Kumiko is not dead. Rin may stop getting updates once all of the APIs are done being intergrated, and work will start on Kumiko. Ultimately, I see Kumiko as the successor to Rin; better in every way possible and catered towards the general audience and non tech savy people
Noelle Wang No767
Well everyone, it was a really fun time working on Rin. Rin was my first major Python project. And in fact, it was my first actual programming project. I started Rin around 1 year ago. In hopes of creating a Discord bot that would do so much more. As Rin was being developed, Rin's codebase got more and more mature. And I started to learn more and more about Discord bot development, asyncio, and Python in general. Around a couple months in developing Rin, I started Kumiko, which is supposed to be the better version of Rin. And even though Kumiko's codebase isn't as mature as Rin's, it has seen so much growth. I know I can't keep on adding APIs after APIs to Rin. And believe it or not, the process of adding one is extremely boring. So this leaves us with the question in mind: What's the Future of Rin?
My life is pretty busy. As a HS student, I have to tend to multiple responsibilities. I am going to be an captain and a core leader within my robotics team, FRC 5507. I have
This guide is intended to help with folks who wish to deploy their Discord bots using Docker. This guide is specifically made for bots using discord.py or pycord (or any fork of discord.py), but the concepts can be applied to other bots as well. (will be different for bots written in C#, Java, Go, Rust, C++, etc)
This gist is meant to explain why Alpine Linux is being dropped from support for Docker images for both Kumiko, and Akari. When choosing the base image for Docker for Kumiko and Akari, Alpine Linux was first used. (first introduced to me by Ellie). Alpine's main selling point is simple: smaller image sizes, and better security. But Alpine comes with a catch. Alpine Linux uses musl (different implementation of the C stdlib for Linux) and busybox, while distros like Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, etc all use glibc and coreutils (GNU Core Utilities). Often times this doesn't play well with Python, and any languages that extensively use C/C++.
One of the biggest issues why I've decided to move away from Alpine Linux is the insane bui
All of my major discord bots from the start has used an database, which is PostgreSQL. And I was first introduced to the world of databases through ORMs like SQLAlchemy and many others. But having tried ORMs ranging from SQLAlchemy to Prisma, I have really concluded that throughout this whole entire time, I didn't really need an ORM. I just needed to learn SQL for once.
I had always seen SQL as a very complex and interlocking language, so much that I spent every single excuse
This Gist This gist explains why Auto Syncing Sucks and ways you can manually sync instead.
Slash commands are special commands that are registered by Discord instead. Unlike prefixed commands, which are handled internally by the library, libraries need to send the commands to Discord through the Discord API. In discord.py, this is done through a process called syncing.
This gist goes over how asyncpg can be integrated with discord.py. In addition with the example, this document also serves as an explanation on some design decisions for who are interested.
Please contact noellieuwu on the discord.py server if
you are interested in contributing to changes or have
Contact Noelle for any concerns or questions with this gist
When looking for hosting your bot, free services and/or providers that claim to support hosting Discord Bots. Do not use them. Why? Let me explain.
Free hosts are providers who specialize in offering an free platform to host projects.