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Re: Ask HN: What's are your personal automations?

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Post by bergie »

sabrehagen wrote: post #29

I automated my desktop environment configuration using Docker containers. I'm able to go from a headless tty to perfectly tailored desktop environment in ~2.5 seconds. First time start requires a ~40 min build, byut thereafter ~2.5s to start afresh. https://github.com/sabrehagen/desktop-environment I did the same think for my production application environment. One command to go from no infrastructure to production g…

That's pretty interesting! I'm also using a CI-built Docker image add my development environment. But this one is less ambitious than yours by being CLI-only

https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/docker-developer-shell/

Re: Ask HN: What's are your personal automations?

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Post by Jayakumark »

kilroy123 wrote: post #74

I use a lot of automation these days, here's a summary: - There's only one bakery in my area that has keto bread, but infrequently. I have a daily bot that scans the bakery page on the Uber eats equivalent webpage, then alerts me when bread is available. - On my phone I get a notification in the morning. When I click it, it copies my daily journals markdown template, opens the note app. Then I paste and write. - I ha…

Just curious on what bot framework you use

Re: Ask HN: What's are your personal automations?

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Post by helij »

jsilence wrote: post #111
helij wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We bought a bread machine almost three years ago. Since then we are yet to buy bread in a shop. The machine is amazing. It literally takes 3 minutes to prep. No fancy recipe. Spoon of yeast + 400g flour + spoon of sugar + spoon of salt + 20g of butter + 280ml of water. Quick program and fresh bread is done in 2h. Highly recommend it. I don't want to advertise but we bought a well known Japanese brand after a lot of r…

Please advertise! Genuinly curious.

Zojirushi (which seems to be high quality as well) was mentioned but I went more mainstream and bought Panasonic SD-2511KXC. Looks like they don't make it anymore but there are similar ones available.

Re: Ask HN: What's are your personal automations?

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Post by swaggyBoatswain »

kilroy123 wrote: post #74

I use a lot of automation these days, here's a summary: - There's only one bakery in my area that has keto bread, but infrequently. I have a daily bot that scans the bakery page on the Uber eats equivalent webpage, then alerts me when bread is available. - On my phone I get a notification in the morning. When I click it, it copies my daily journals markdown template, opens the note app. Then I paste and write. - I ha…

Dang this is next level personal automation here

I haven't even set up a webscraper alert for a ps5

Re: Ask HN: What's are your personal automations?

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Post by kilroy123 »

Jayakumark wrote: post #132
kilroy123 wrote: post #74

I use a lot of automation these days, here's a summary: - There's only one bakery in my area that has keto bread, but infrequently. I have a daily bot that scans the bakery page on the Uber eats equivalent webpage, then alerts me when bread is available. - On my phone I get a notification in the morning. When I click it, it copies my daily journals markdown template, opens the note app. Then I paste and write. - I ha…

Just curious on what bot framework you use

I use a mix of huginn, n8n, rss-bridge, some custom code that runs via cron job, and I'm using puppeteer more and more.

Re: Ask HN: What's are your personal automations?

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

sabrehagen wrote: post #29

I automated my desktop environment configuration using Docker containers. I'm able to go from a headless tty to perfectly tailored desktop environment in ~2.5 seconds. First time start requires a ~40 min build, byut thereafter ~2.5s to start afresh. https://github.com/sabrehagen/desktop-environment I did the same think for my production application environment. One command to go from no infrastructure to production g…

That's remarkable! I don't think I've seen anyone else even try to run X itself in docker. Thanks for sharing:)

Re: Ask HN: What's are your personal automations?

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Post by souprock »

m463 wrote: post #128
souprock wrote: post #112

If a 1-liner run manually counts, feast your eyes on nearly a kilobyte of awful bash: for i in raw-* ; do cat $i | expand | egrep '[A-Z]{3} +[0-9]{4}|/2021' | sed -r -e 's!08/(..)/2021!aug\1!g' -e 's!09/(..)/2021!sep\1!g' -e 's!10/(..)/2021!oct\1!g' -e 's!12/(..)/2021!dec\1!g' -e 's!01/(..)/2021!jan\1!g' -e 's!05/(..)/2021!may\1!g' -e 's!03/(..)/2021!mar\1!g' -e 's!02/(..)/2021!feb\1!g' -e 's!06/(..)/2021!jun\1!g' -e…

how does while with two reads work?

It deals with two lines of input. Probably the ";" should have been "&&" instead, so that either failure will end the loop.

Re: Ask HN: What's are your personal automations?

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Post by disambiguation »

kilroy123 wrote: post #74

I use a lot of automation these days, here's a summary: - There's only one bakery in my area that has keto bread, but infrequently. I have a daily bot that scans the bakery page on the Uber eats equivalent webpage, then alerts me when bread is available. - On my phone I get a notification in the morning. When I click it, it copies my daily journals markdown template, opens the note app. Then I paste and write. - I ha…

ive been thinking of an app link "monica" for a long time! gonna try it out right now, thanks for sharing :)

Re: Ask HN: What's are your personal automations?

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Post by h-1 »

motyar wrote: post #50

I have few but most time saving is about things that takes more time. For examples I have automated visual creation for social media using https://bruzu.com and IFTTT/Zapier.

> bruzu.com

Good idea, well executed, short memorable domain name. Solid work, motyar.

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