Hi.

If you have two moments, read this post, it is about a study someone would like to do and you can participate in it

https://telegra.ph/The-Study-06-28

They want to have at least 50 members to start their study, and this channel has 150+, so if like every third of you all can join their channel that would be kinda awesome :)

Happy new year everyone.

The python-telegram-bot framework I help maintain has, after two years of intense developing, finally released the mayor v20 upgrade, switching the code base to asyncio and making a lot of great breaking changes along the way. Developing a bot with it is now more fun than ever.

Feel free to use it, its cool :D

Release post

I am particularly proud that we got three new people into developing the library. Me and Bibo-Joshi started working on it 2019, Harshil joined a bit later, and for the last half year clot and Dmitry have also joined the team and done really good contributions. Really happy you guys are there!

https://t.me/programmerjokes/2730

Today, I got famous.

Also, while I have your attention, I streamed a bit of Hi-Fi RUSH yesterday, where this fight stood out enough to me that I made a short highlight video about it. Give it a watch if me struggling with a game is your cup of tea. https://youtu.be/TDtNYKXYmws

Baked birthday muffins for and with my flatmate today.

🎉

The 502's will be in Hamburg, Rindermarkthalle on 12.12. (Their most popular song is probably https://youtu.be/dFANyr3Tyng)

I will be there :)

Hello there.

Over the last weeks I have seen some issues with the hosted services on my servers. I have come to the realization that the server has gotten a bit overwhelmed and thus I will upgrade it over the next days. I will have to shutdown my projects for that, ideally only for a short moment. I will edit this message when the shutdown happens and once it is done.

Sorry for the current and ongoing inconvenience, I hope to be able to mitigate this rather swiftly.

Edit: Shutdown will happen in the next hour
Edit edit: Shutdown now
Edit edit edit: And we are back

~ a week ago, 31.1; Neil.fun released a new game called Infinite craft. I saw an opportunity to distract myself for an hour from learning and programmed a small script automating the game, recorded it playing and uploaded to YouTube. https://youtu.be/JP7WFK54mXE

This video has gotten 7 thousand views without me advertising it anywhere. That is crazy :D

Well if you start an email like that. You must know you are doing smth wrong.

Hi. I am @Poolitzer, I keep close track of what the Telegram Bot API is up to for a number of reasons. Almost a year ago (on the 21th of April to be precise), they released update 6.7 which introduced the ability for bots to send custom emojis. However, a bot needs to be assigned an additional upgraded username from Fragment in order to do this (which costs ~5k USD from fragment directly, or you can ofc try to ask some owner of one of these upgraded usernames if they are willing to sell it to you for less).

Fragment is Telegrams marketplace to bid on usernames. They utilize the TON, a blockchain technology initially developed by Telegram. This (and free APIs built on top of it, in particular the TON API) allowed me to check all transactions to Fragment and filter those for upgrading a username in ~30 lines of python code, so I was able to collect all upgraded usernames bought this way. This ofc does not stop Telegram from making exceptions to this, if they feel like it, so don't consider this list exclusive.

The high price for an upgrade (if you did not buy a lot of TON when it was less valuable ofc) and only getting the ability to send custom emojis in return led me to believe we would not have more then 50 upgraded usernames. I was wrong, there are 139 overall. And without further ado, here they are, in reversed chronological order:

@synthtext
@bfgproject
@playgram
@dwall
@jinbei
@kuai3
@ch_zn
@kefu888
@dyorio
@web3shards
@tondating
@calc
@faygo
@miniapp
@hvvdb
@digitalku
@dragun69
@winlife
@iris_flooz_xyz
@novpn
@snipe
@maziton
@cryptoexchange
@stable_diffusion
@storyninja
@opay
@novatg
@zhipay
@xrare
@aokf
@postal
@levelupgraded
@scan
@jiso
@chatmate
@raidar
@fllqb
@dexswap
@baidu
@ppay
@dewallet
@tg20
@hotescorts
@mpay
@expertpremium
@ston_fi
@sososo
@cardify
@sese
@neuro_upgrades
@neuroupgrades
@buybot
@posto
@mybot
@guardianapp
@memetrend
@taro
@dbot
@ajdb
@pragma
@hold
@yfyl
@apeit
@superwhale
@qianbao
@bons
@tonpay
@dwallet
@wpay
@emailbomber
@postify
@channelhelp
@rekla
@moontech
@roulette
@livecasino
@bookie
@blackjack
@anypost
@abot
@instagrambot
@xb888
@xbjsq
@send
@maestropro
@smss
@xbkf
@aigo
@fabrika
@telegrasbot
@jisou
@tribute
@chaoji
@sohu
@lookups
@aaoo
@hwjz
@ethxy
@souso
@maestro
@wins
@aiso
@sotv
@welcome
@safeguard
@qqpay
@major
@xiaou
@topay
@qian
@v999
@fintopio
@jayahost
@ipay
@qunguag
@oppo
@soso
@posted
@vng_team
@upay
@im_bobby
@badge
@such
@ports
@qunguan
@buytech
@chau
@toucan
@altery
@avinfo
@okpay
@sportsbet
@whale
@betting
@shop
@hwdb
@fomo
@jetton
@upgrade

Not sure how many people are able to appreciate this, but for someone who rarely posts/comments in a public context this did put a smile on my face :)

So I really liked doing the weekly posts in this channel when I was in Canada. And some people rightfully tell me I don't share a lot about my live. So I made myself a new website and will try to do monthly blog posts again, check it out. And feel free to send me some feedback about it.

The last weeks one is about my vacation mostly https://poolitzer.eu/blog/weekly/0/

https://poolitzer.eu/blog/weekly/1/

And the next one is out (sorry, issue with the website prevented me from posting yesterday).

https://poolitzer.eu/blog/weekly/2/

And we are back for another one

https://poolitzer.eu/blog/weekly/3/

I got very busy so its a rather short recap this time, sorry.

https://poolitzer.eu/blog/weekly/4/

Its got better, though its later in the week then I hoped.