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      1. Wrote an Alexa bot today to tell the kids what's for lunch at school, so I don't have to click through the school calendar app every morning: "Alexa, ask Papio Menu what's for lunch today" "Alexa, ask Papio Menu what is for lunch tomorrow"
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      Works great in dev testing. Submitted for Amazon approval. Fingers crossed that it works from the kids voices on the real alexa github.com/jeffsheets/alexa-papio-lunch-menu
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    The Alexa ASK CLI made the deploys to lambda+alexa easy. and there are local text test and browser voice test options, with debug breakpoints too developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/smapi/quick-start-alexa-skills-kit-command-line-interface.html
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      All this has me thinking there’s a serious untapped market for hyper localized Alexa apps
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        Definitely the slowest part of publishing to @alexa99 is waiting for approval, especially since this skill app was built for elementary age kids... still waiting...
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          Ah man, of course, they finally got around to certification testing it - the day before spring break. Which meant there's nothing for lunch next week on the calendar, so it "failed". Now I get to handle that side-case and resubmit (hopefully not waiting another month!)
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            It’s alive! “Alexa, ask Papio Menu what’s for lunch tomorrow”