The Application fulfills your last will by executing a workflow from your private repository on GitHub in case of your death. Free from bias, blind to your secrets, cold-blooded as machine code.
The App is intended primarily for programmers and software engineers who have an account on GitHub. Recently, the workflow automation system GitHub Actions has gained great popularity, which this App uses. However, anyone interested can create a workflow and use this App.
- You create a workflow on GitHub
- In a private repo for manual dispatch event.
- You grant access to the Application
- Only the workflow run permissions needed.
- You activate communication channels
- For example, authorize the Telegram bot.
- The App regularly communicates with you
- You can customize how often this happens.
- You perform a simple action in response
- Thus, you confirm that you are alive.
- If you don't respond in time...
- The deadline is also customizable by you.
- The App executes the workflow
- Considering you dead, it fulfills your last will.
The App does not read the contents of the repository and the workflow, but only initiates its launch in the specified case. Moreover, you can use encrypted Action Secrets in the GitHub repository settings for sensitive information. Thus, the application is blind and impartial in relation to you, your will and your secrets. The App is open source, so you can check this.
The mechanism for determining the fact of death is not ideally accurate. There are exceptional cases when the App may fulfill your last will while you are legally alive. For example, if you are unconscious, or you are in prison, or you lost your phone, or for some other reason you do not have access to communication.
The App does not replace notarial certification of last will and other procedures established by the law of your country for the official transfer of property and inheritance rights.
Create a new private repository on GitHub in case you do not have one yet.
Commit a file .github/workflows/my-last-will.yml to the repository with a content similar to the following.
Please note: the email sending action is shown below for demonstration purposes. You should choose your own steps and actions according to your goals and concerns.
name: Last will
on: workflow_dispatch
jobs:
lastWill:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Tell my wife I love her
uses: dawidd6/[email protected]
with:
server_address: smtp.mail.mail
server_port: 465
username: ${{ secrets.SMTP_LOGIN }}
password: ${{ secrets.SMTP_PASSWORD }}
from: Jane Doe <[email protected]>
to: [email protected]
subject: My last will
body: |
Hello my darling. If you are reading
these lines, I am most likely dead. In
this regard, I want to inform you that
the years I lived with you were the
happiest in my life. I love you more
than schnitzel and potatoes. I am just
kidding, sorry. To support you in this
difficult moment, I leave you some
money between the pages of The Hobbit
book by J.R.R. Tolkien, which you will
find in a drawer in my office. Do not
be discouraged for too long and find
for yourself someone alive, because
you deserve to be happy anyway.