See image for an example. Links shared from xkcd create a visually appealing preview image. Content you are sharing is easily seen without others having to clink on the link. The result could potentially be more people sharing links instead of screen shot and stealing.

• Put Duckie in a process monitor

• Change the default 503 page in nginx to show a "dead Duckie"

"cowsay" exists for terminal users:

caduffy@Dr-Link-Talbot ~ $ fortune | cowsay

/ Now there's three things you can do in
| a baseball game: you can win or you can |
| lose or it can rain. |
| |
\ -- Casey Stengel /

    \   ^__^
     \  (oo)\_______
        (__)\       )\/\
            ||----w |
            ||     ||

caduffy@Dr-Link-Talbot ~ $

Develop "duckiesay" that accepts piped input and displays a traditional ascii interpretation of a Duckiesays page. If input is not available to duckiesay, have it make an api request to get a quote.

Explanation pages (wiki) that relate directly to the duck with the id number.

Example:
http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1831:_Here_to_Help

"adding ducks" requires adding the quote to create_db.dmp, stopping node, running create_db.sh to replace the sqlite db, and restarting node. There's currently no easy way to update the database while node is running to add ducks without a server restart.

Running create_db.sh while node is running does generate a new sqlite db, but the new DB isn't used because it's not the one loaded in memory.

The downtime is short, but the downtime should be non-existent.

The right answer is to create some kind of 'update_db.sh' which will create or connect to and update an existing db.

Duckie should have multiple personas, not just the programming / design vertical duck speaks about now.

e.g. "Dark Duck" could give bad or vengeful advice, coupled with a different color palette. A child-focused duckie could give advice for children such as "Be nice to people" and "Do your chores" and perhaps even read these sayings aloud.

One way to implement this would be with subdomains, e.g. https://dark.duckiesays.com or https://little.duckiesays.com and even https://racing.duckiesays.com

Multiple duck graphics should be available for a user to choose which duck they would like to talk to. --Beth

https://duckiesays.com/29

Duckie plagiarizes a lot. Let's give credit where credit is due by embedding links in the quotes to sources.

Everything's fine until the quote gets too long. Then it falls apart.

See subject

Need to make Duckie easier to to install and deploy, need those tools checked into the repo.

Need a new Duckie that is a fortune teller. Basically, this would be the same Duckie graphic we have now, but with a basic clipart fortune teller outfit.

Instead of using a database of curated quotes, fortune Duckie would simply run the unix "fortune" command - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix) ("brew install fortune" on macOS)

and pipe the output to the web browser.

Fortunes are not indexed, so there will be no way to capture and share a particular fortune. It will be a random event every time the page is hit.

Duckie needs to publish a gadget for embedding into other sites.
https://developers.google.com/gadgets/docs/xml_reference

Conforming to the above will enable Duckie to be embedded in JIRA dashboards, etc. We should parameterize Duckie, so it can be random or a specific number quote.

JIRA specific info: https://developer.atlassian.com/jiradev/jira-platform/guides/dashboards/tutorial-writing-gadgets-for-jira