Some friends and I often eat in the mensa at our faculty. Now eating together is nicer than alone, but coordinating this is hard especially with different and varying schedules. But I wouldn’t be genuine CS students if I didn’t try to solve this problem with technology… so I wrote a Matrix Chat Bot using maubot that posts the day’s menu, you can reply when you’ll eat and see when others will eat.
Recently I wrote two Matrix (as in the communication protocol) bots using maubot .
MensaBot can tell you today’s menu in the canteen. It also supports you in finding a time when you can go to the canteen together with you friends or co-workers.ReminerBot is target towards students and can remind you of several university related deadlines. It can remind you of the deadlines to register for or de-register from your exams, pay your semester fee or to register for the universities recreational sports courses. You’ll never miss these deadlines again!During the years in which I really learned to program I was exposed a lot to the Django web framework . I also worked a lot with it during these years. Now, 5 years later, it is still the framework that I have the most experience with.