I’d like to preface this story by stating this is my theory based on observations made…

I recently had the need for a basic notification service as part of my Gigafiber Availability check script. I decided on Telegram for a few reasons, I’d already used it before, it’s very simple to use the API, and it’s free.

A few months back I was informed Gigafiber was coming to my neighborhood. I was, of course, very happy to hear this and wanted to know as soon as it became available. So, I wrote a short script to check for availability and notify me via…