Bucharest FP #58 — Automating the boring things with Clojure ChatOps

# Victor Cleja — Automating the boring things with Clojure ChatOps

## ABSTRACT

Yetibot (https://github.com/yetibot/yetibot) is a feature-rich ChatOps tool made in Clojure. In the past two years I have been using it for:

• basic automation tasks, like onboarding messages for new Slack members and scheduled announcements via cron
• interacting with Jira and Github
• testing various APIs and custom scrapers
• teaching Javascript and fun *nix-styled one-liners

## BIOGRAPHY

Victor Cleja is a Java dev by day, and Chief Community Manager of Code for Romania by night. He has been using Yetibot to learn and promote Clojure as a productive and fun programming language. After two years he's still discovering surprising uses cases for it (mostly by eval-ing Clojure expressions in Slack or IRC). Huge music geek, obsessive Github stargazer and repo scavenger.

# Call for Talks

If you had an A-HA moment, small or big, while using a functional language or approach to solve a problem dear to your heart and you would also be willing to share your experiences with the group, please send us a private message on Meetup and maybe we can schedule a meetup.

If you're anxious about speaking to an unknown public audience, we're willing to restrict the number of participants to a number you're comfortable with ;) Not joking!

PS: Meanwhile, don't forget about our ongoing Haskell Book Study Group!