Access fun quotes from Ted Lasso with a CLI built in Go
Originally published on tigersandtacos.dev.
Probably the best show in the world
Or at least its the show with some of the best quotes!
It was a Friday evening, the kids had gone to bed and I was sitting in my couch watching a Ted Lasso episode or two when it hit me, I want to get a daily dose of Ted Lasso quotes!
I started searching for a place that could provide me with this but all websites I found were either ugly, full of ads or made it difficult in one way or another to read the quotes…
After a glass of wine or two I got a sudden flash of inspiration and decided to do something about it.
After a couple of hours I had built simple website with Go as the backend and Tailwind as the css framework.
- The service renders a simple html page with a random quote from Ted Lasso
- It has an API where you can get a random quote.
Later that weekend I deployed the service on Linode (I really like that service) which was really easy.
But I didn’t feel like this was it, something was missing.
So I spent a little bit of time and created a Ted Lasso Quotes CLI so that anyone can access Ted Lasso quotes in their terminal. A couple of years ago this would probably had been done as a shell script or similar but now a days I tend to write most of my things in Go, so that was the route I went for this CLI. You can clone the repo and build your own binary here