In this short blog post, I experiment with using a Telegram bot to send arbitrary notifications as chat messages. There are many instances where this can be very useful. The process is fairly trivial, and it only takes a few minutes to set everything up. Creating a Telegram bot First we need to create a telegram bot. In telegram, start a new chat with @BotFather. This special account is a bot itself and facilitates the creation and management of other bots. Issue the /newbot command and follo...
