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First Joel is brilliant. I love the idea. However, "Set up your Alexa skill in your Amazon developer account." "TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID and TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN - ava
by ransom1538 10y ago
First Joel is brilliant. I love the idea. However,
"Set up your Alexa skill in your Amazon developer account."
"TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID and TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN - available from https://www.twilio.com/user/account/settings" https://www.twilio.com/user/account/settings"
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Things have changed since 99. The walled gardens are up. Credit cards are required everywhere. I hope the 'casual' programmer can fill out all these forms and not be scared by AUTH_TOKENS. I wish gomix had a pool of community accounts. (eg for Twilio where you get like 100 free texts and you just hack on).
- tezza 10y agoquick setup'n'go in 1999 was mostly a php/perl web provider. is AUTH_TOKEN really too much different for having to set up a mysql db in '99 and putting in DB_HOST, DB_PORT, DB_USER and DB_PASS ? thats what a lot if the LAMP stacks had back then at a minimum. then make a page woth php_info in it and carefully scan the verbose output to see what your cgi renderer was compiled with
- Nullabillity 10y agoYes. DB_HOST and co. are stuff you run locally on your own computer. AUTH_TOKEN means you're stuck with some external service, that will probably charge you at some point.
- tim333 10y agoRunning servers for Alexa or sending texts for Twilio are not free so they have to have some sort of registration or payment or go broke. I don't think those services were available in 99 so that's different.