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I have individually addressable LEDs, so I created a domain specific language (DSL) to control the LEDs, meaning controlling the pattern of the LEDs is best done by sending a message to it.

Honestly the DSL really isn't that great. I've been meaning to redesign it using something like ANTLR rather than the mess that I made a few years ago.

I do eventually want to have a local-first way to send messages to the program, but creating that isn't worth my time at the moment.

Discord bots are dirt simple to make, so it's not that crazy

It's a completely free, both in message volume and queue size, highly available hosted 1-1 and 1-n topic based message queue with automatic sharding, excellent performance, and high-quality prebuilt libraries. It has built-in notification support to all platforms and a basic UI toolkit that is easy to use.

The fact that it's also a chat thing is honestly secondary to the foundational tech.