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Then when I need to report all stats of multiple product, there is another automated script for me to aggregate them.
Saved me hours of context switching and copy and pasting.
- Downloading a song of youtube, adding meta data via beets and moving to my music lib - Adding tasks to my todolist client from every app I use(including my bookmarking service when I bookmark with specific tags) - Changing terminal colours based on time of the day(lower brightness in the evenings and hence dark colours, too much sunlight in the mornings and hence solarized themes) - Automatically message people who…
I'm curious as to how you did the "Phone alerts on specific emails". I'm currently setting my raspberry pi up as a motion detector (we were burgled 2 weeks ago)... and while I can do the motion & send out the email, I really want my phone to go nuts when it gets the alert email (mostly I have notifications turned off). Any hints appreciated! I'm also experimenting with Telegram, which I think will also solve my issue…
In my city, there are many stadiums which cause traffic congestion during rush hours. I made a scraping bot which tells me if there's going to be traffic on my designated routes the next day. Going to try making it an app and see if it's any useful to others.
I am not a programmer, but I've automated a few things in my life. I self publish graphic novels. I have a script that runs on a directory full of page files and outputs a CSV in the format InDesign expects. I wrote it after manually editing a CSV and leaving a page out, and not noticing that until I had an advance copy in my hands and 400 more waiting to be shipped from the printer. That was an expensive learning ex…
I have some news for you. You are a programmer.
My expense reports and timesheets. The three shittiest parts of my job every week are: - Approving timesheets - Entering in my timesheets - Entering in my expense reports I've written a script that goes in using a phantom.js script, and automates the submission of my timesheet on Friday afternoon at 3:00 +/- 15minutes. It now takes into account travel time, Holidays, and approving time if I have time approvals due. S…
17 years into the 20th century, and we are still filling timesheets.
My expense reports and timesheets. The three shittiest parts of my job every week are: - Approving timesheets - Entering in my timesheets - Entering in my expense reports I've written a script that goes in using a phantom.js script, and automates the submission of my timesheet on Friday afternoon at 3:00 +/- 15minutes. It now takes into account travel time, Holidays, and approving time if I have time approvals due. S…
17 years into the 20th century, and we are still filling timesheets.
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I have some news for you. You are a programmer.
If doing that stuff over about 4 or 5 years or so makes me a programmer, then I'm also a carpenter, because I've put together a few pieces of furniture over the same span.
My expense reports and timesheets. The three shittiest parts of my job every week are: - Approving timesheets - Entering in my timesheets - Entering in my expense reports I've written a script that goes in using a phantom.js script, and automates the submission of my timesheet on Friday afternoon at 3:00 +/- 15minutes. It now takes into account travel time, Holidays, and approving time if I have time approvals due. S…
17 years into the 20th century, and we are still filling timesheets.