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Find Stone Beer

This project is a Go application that once a day pings gets 256 random wiki pages, then picks one of those using a Quantum Random Number Generator, and then sends that article to my phone using Pushover.

Tech used

golang
ANU QRNG API for quantum random numbers
Wikipedia API for getting random pages
Pushover is used for delivering notifications to my phone
It used to run daily on a GitLab CI schedule (turned off); the published page is the last run's results

Source

1	# Find Stone Beer
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3	This project is a Go application that once a day pings gets 256 random wiki pages, then picks one of those using a Quantum Random Number Generator, and then sends that article to my phone using Pushover.
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5	## Tech used
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7	- golang
8	- [ANU QRNG API](https://quantumnumbers.anu.edu.au/) for quantum random numbers
9	- [Wikipedia API](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&generator=random&grnnamespace=0&grnlimit=256) for getting random pages
10	- Pushover is used for delivering notifications to my phone
11	- It used to run daily on a GitLab CI schedule (turned off); the published page is the last run's results