Wes hooked up a receipt printer to Sentry, where every new issue triggers a receipt to print. See how he did it in today's episode at syntax.fm/822 Receipt Printer with JavaScript Wes explains how he built a receipt printer with JS during Hack Week at Sentry, including connecting it, encoding printer commands, taking screenshots to print complex layouts when alerts come in from Sentry. #javascript #codingfyp #hardware #hackweek #syntaxfm #webdev

I got a receipt printer which is what you see at like a restaurant in a kitchen or you go to a coffee shop and you buy something and it goes and it prints out the receipt and they hand it to you and you throw it in the garbage, right? I have always been very curious about how those things work especially I can remember exactly I got a receipt from Toys R Us when I was a kid and the R in Toys R Us was backwards and I always remember thinking like how did they get a backwards R and now I realize it's probably like a Cyrillic character that they threw in there but I've always been curious about how these receipt printers work so what I did was I got one and I decided I'm going to hook it up to Sentry so that when a Sentry issue comes in it will just automatically print it and I'll talk about how I got there throughout this episode.