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Hilarious marketing/blog post on how to overengineer this so it works on gsheets - https://www.nexmo.com/legacy-blog/2019/01/23/how-to-send-sms-from-a-spreadshe

by soared 3y ago

Hilarious marketing/blog post on how to overengineer this so it works on gsheets - https://www.nexmo.com/legacy-blog/2019/01/23/how-to-send-sms-from-a-spreadsheet-dr https://www.nexmo.com/legacy-blog/2019/01/23/how-to-send-sms... Sadly I can’t seem to find any documentation on the nokia spreadsheet program to see what we could with it.

em-bee 3y ago
Zawinski's Law: Every program attempts to expand until it can read [or send] mail. [or SMS/text messages] (additions in [] are mine)
- objektif 3y ago
  This is hilarious and it resonates with me.
- somat 3y ago
  The fun thing is when you get your system correctly setup and the mail daemon runs up and delivers your email to you in nethack. I always thought it would be fun if more games would include thematically correct in universe utilities like this. On second thought I would probably hate it, but it is fun to think about.
  - em-bee 3y ago
    MUDs had/have them. LPMuds in particular had ftp and later http servers built in and pioneered intermud which supported instant messaging, as well as in game mail accross servers. at least for messaging clients existed that also allowed communication with players from outside the game. message boards existed too, not sure if there were any shared across serders. i also don't know if there were bridges to smtp or irc too, would not have been hard to build though (there was apparently at least one MUD that forwarded messages from in game message boards to mailing lists, and oh, PSYCH is a messaging platform written in LPC that supports XMPP and i believe IRC too) it is no surprise that LPC, the language LPMuds are written in served as a basis for the general purpose language Pike. there is a server written in Pike with an internal design similar to MUDs that supports not only http and ftp but also smtp, irc, xmpp and other protocols. i use that for my own websites.
jeroen 3y ago
I have written software for the Nokia 9110 (the predecessor of the 9210) and not being able to find any documentation was par for the course. There was only a forum where sometimes, with a delay of a couple of days, questions would be answered by Nokia engineers.
rabuse 3y ago
It's hilarious that the song name is "Dilemma", when this is clearly a dilemma.
xavdid 3y ago
Yeah, this is definitely possible today. A couple of us did it when we were working at Zapier - you could set up a Zap to watch columns of a sheet to act as an inbox and outbox, then hook it up to Twilio to text a pre-determined person.

by soared 3y ago

em-bee 3y ago

Zawinski's Law: Every program attempts to expand until it can read [or send] mail. [or SMS/text messages] (additions in [] are mine)

objektif 3y ago
This is hilarious and it resonates with me.
somat 3y ago
The fun thing is when you get your system correctly setup and the mail daemon runs up and delivers your email to you in nethack. I always thought it would be fun if more games would include thematically correct in universe utilities like this. On second thought I would probably hate it, but it is fun to think about.
- em-bee 3y ago
  MUDs had/have them. LPMuds in particular had ftp and later http servers built in and pioneered intermud which supported instant messaging, as well as in game mail accross servers. at least for messaging clients existed that also allowed communication with players from outside the game. message boards existed too, not sure if there were any shared across serders. i also don't know if there were bridges to smtp or irc too, would not have been hard to build though (there was apparently at least one MUD that forwarded messages from in game message boards to mailing lists, and oh, PSYCH is a messaging platform written in LPC that supports XMPP and i believe IRC too) it is no surprise that LPC, the language LPMuds are written in served as a basis for the general purpose language Pike. there is a server written in Pike with an internal design similar to MUDs that supports not only http and ftp but also smtp, irc, xmpp and other protocols. i use that for my own websites.

jeroen 3y ago

I have written software for the Nokia 9110 (the predecessor of the 9210) and not being able to find any documentation was par for the course. There was only a forum where sometimes, with a delay of a couple of days, questions would be answered by Nokia engineers.

rabuse 3y ago

It's hilarious that the song name is "Dilemma", when this is clearly a dilemma.

xavdid 3y ago

Yeah, this is definitely possible today. A couple of us did it when we were working at Zapier - you could set up a Zap to watch columns of a sheet to act as an inbox and outbox, then hook it up to Twilio to text a pre-determined person.