How I made a digital friend for myself

I always wondered, what it would be like to have a friend with super powers; a magic friend.
On Steemit I now have a little friend, that doesn't sleep, drink or eat - he is just there to help me 24/7.
He lives on his own little laptop computer.

Meet @normaluser :
He now does something

So far I can give him a job and he will just do that until I tell him to stop.
In most cases I just press the on/off button again, if he stops doing, what he should.

I told him to vote everything I say here on Steemit and so far he does that sometimes.
He just doesn't understand me very well and I don't understand him.
We will work it out

This post is meant to inspire you, to invent your own little friend.
I can't walk you through the whole process, because I don't know where you are coming from.
If you have no idea about programming and some time and a computer on your hands, you can follow this blog.
I will try to explain what I have done.

You could do this, too

At this point it's a shoutout to the community.
Maybe we can make a little bot dojo for Steemit, a Steem agent university.

I have no real experience in programming or Linux or any of what I'm doing here.
I had some people help me on chat and I hope they are reading this and I have to

thank you all

a lot.

I'm going to jump straight into coding now, but I'm happy to help anybody at trying this at any step.
To get the steem-piston running, took me a lot.
I honestly don't know where to begin.
It was terrible ... I will blog about it ...

But: if I can do it, you can do it, too.

I know my code will look like a joke to most people, but it somehow does the job and I can read it well.
I don't mind if it's not elegant.
What the bot does so far is:

• vote for every comment in the stream, that has @felixxx (myself) as an author

I know that's a bit lame, but it's all I can teach him so far ...
The code looks like this:
It's bits from @xeroc s 'tutorials' broken down for @normaluser

python3 votey.py

from piston.steem import Steem # import steem
steem = Steem('posting key here') # unsafe ? I guess ... ( I have no clue tbh )
import os # for beauty
os.system('clear') # clear screen
Print ('Welcome to me script for normaluser') # Hi !
for c in steem.stream_comments(): # for every comment in the stream

if "felixxx" in c['author']: # that has felixxx (me) as an author

print(c.upvote(voter='normaluser')) # vote and return what exactly you voted for

This crashes after a while, but I am exhausted and happy to have just something to show as a result.

What I really want to do is this:

python3 mevotey.py

from piston.steem import Steem
import os
steem = Steem(wif='the posting key goes here') # uhm ....
me = ('normaluser')
os.system('clear') # clear screen
print ('Welcome to me script for ', me )
for c in steem.stream_comments(): # for every such item in stream

if '@%s' % me in c['body']: # that has me name in it

print ('voted : ', c['author'], c.upvote(voter=me))

but it doesn't do anything.

I want to write an introduction for @normaluser soon.
I have big dreams for him and I need your help.
If you like the idea, you can follow him - I will teach him to follow back very soon.

He can be your friend, too :)