Timebox bot

Given a duration ("1h", "2m", "8h10m3s" etc. - see https://golang.org/pkg/time/#ParseDuration) and an optional message ("Stop! Times up!", "And.... relax", etc.) create a timebox.

That is to say, create a timer which counts down the minutes (sending a message to the requestor at intervals) prior to sending the final message.

This is useful for doing things like setting a so-called 'productivity timer' (like in pomodoro), or by ensuring you don't spend too long working on a specific tasks (like a timebox).

This bot makes a couple of assumptions:

1. You've a SASL account for this bot to use
2. You've enabled actions notifications in github for failed/successful runs

This bot requires the following env vars:

• $SASL_USER - the user to connect with
• $SASL_PASSWORD - the password to connect with
• $SERVER - IRC connection details, as irc://server:6667 or ircs://server:6697 (ircs implies irc-over-tls)
• $VERIFY_TLS - Verify TLS, or sack it off. This is of interest to people, like me, running an ircd on localhost with a self-signed cert. Matches "true" as true, and anything else as false

The SASL mechanism is hardcoded to PLAIN.

Building

This bot can be built using pretty standard go tools:

$ go build

Or via docker:

$ docker build -t foo .

Running

If you've built the app yourself, then happy day- there's your binary!

Otherwise I suggest via docker:

$ docker build -t foo .
$ docker run foo

(Setting the above environment variables accordingly)