At the end of every Nerd Alert newsletter's list of Hot Links, there's a link from someone named "Inndy".
Inndy started out as Bert, our clone of Github's Hubot for Hipchat. Bert's beedogs and beer me were popular commands.
We included Bert in the newsletter from the beginning, because Bert was a valued member of the team.
From this Twitter thread:
Ben: Is this history of Inndy/Bert in the Nerd Alert newsletter correct? https://github.com/INN/docs/commit/c214096c05291cb20dc3e6fe0cbb7b018fb0443c
Adam: hmm, i'm pretty sure bert was in the newsletter from the beginning and was *always* supposed to be robot-related because we thought it was funny
Adam: like he/she/it (we never figured out bert's pronouns definitively afaik) was a valued member of the team and we didn't want to exclude him/her/them just for being a robotKaeti: Ya, I think the idea was to treat Bert/Inndy as a full teammade who would share robot perspectives.
Kaeti: Inndy renamed because INN and maybe an Indiana Jones reference??Adam: hot robot takes
Kaeti: bot takes dot biz
Thus.
