Hello! My name is Ian Mitchell.
I'm a web developer from Seattle, Washington. I work at Discord as a Senior Software Engineer on the Bots and API team. In my free time I like to play video games, follow politics, and tinker with coding projects.
Recent Posts
Sending LogDNA Alerts to Discord
Using Display-P3 Color Space in Safari's `theme-color` Tag
tunes.ninja
My friend wrote a Discord bot that takes a song link and posts a message that links to that song on all the major music platforms.
I'm Launching a Discord!
Fully Vaccinated!
Deploying a Discord Bot as a Vercel Serverless Function
My last post talked about Discord slash commands and some of the benefits of the new HTTP API, but I didn't spend much time talking about hosting. Using HTTP instead of the Gateway for your bot unlocks some cool new options, like hosting it as a serverless function through a provider like Vercel!
Creating a Discord HTTP Slash Command Bot with Fastify
Slapping people with trout was a popular way of sending a notification to users back in the IRC days. Let's bring it back! Ah, nostalgia.
Design Updates
The Murderbot Diaries
My dad got me reading The Murderbot Diaries recently. I'm loving it so far, and highly recommend it if you enjoy Sci-Fi! They're pretty quick reads.