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Wrote a program that tracks Australian movie release dates for movies I'm interested in. Sends a daily email if a release date moves, or there a new movies for me to flag my interest in. Interfaces with themoviedb.org for plot summary, cast and crew info and such. Interfaces with Google Calendar for writing entries for each movie I'm tracking.
Yes please share!
Wrote a program that tracks Australian movie release dates for movies I'm interested in. Sends a daily email if a release date moves, or there a new movies for me to flag my interest in. Interfaces with themoviedb.org for plot summary, cast and crew info and such. Interfaces with Google Calendar for writing entries for each movie I'm tracking.
Yes please share!
I get a weekly newsletter with a bunch of music recommendations in it, which I had been manually adding to a Spotify playlist. So I recently wrote a CLI in Node that takes a URL and a CSS-style query selector (ie, '.album-title'), then scrapes the page, searches for each found instance and adds them all to a spotify playlist. github.com/markreid/scrapify
That's awesome! I'm currently working on a similar thing using Pitchfork best new music, Gorilla vs Bear reviews and Needle Drop best tracks of the week + favorite albums of the month. Very clean code btw o/
Feel free to fork or borrow or contribute!
PS. Also when Internet is back, it alerts again so I can resume online Work if I have to.
I do contract work for a few clients. I always automate the boring tasks of vpn'ning, firing up remote desktop, connecting to database servers, their email system, etc. Automating that is fiddly and tedious, but it's worth it because I can just click a button and get a menu of clients. I choose one, and in about 10 seconds my machine is ready to go on their work.
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> Paying all of my bills. All of them. What kind of bills? Like grocery bills? or recurring bills? Aren't you using direct debits/standing orders/credit cards for those?
Everything that's recurring: mortgage, electricity, insurance, internet, iphone payment plan, etc. My wife handles our groceries and such. We actually have two separate accounts: "mine" gets the paycheck, pays the bills, and transfers money to "hers" twice a month. We also have a third "giving" account that gets a bit of money set aside to give to or buy things for other people. This can be anything from a car repair…
Woah - just for your information, there is no credential sharing required here.
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Everything that's recurring: mortgage, electricity, insurance, internet, iphone payment plan, etc. My wife handles our groceries and such. We actually have two separate accounts: "mine" gets the paycheck, pays the bills, and transfers money to "hers" twice a month. We also have a third "giving" account that gets a bit of money set aside to give to or buy things for other people. This can be anything from a car repair…
> Direct debit is fine if you trust the other side not to ...leak your credentials Woah - just for your information, there is no credential sharing required here.
But, I was mainly referring to the account and routing number. Anyone with those two numbers and access to the ACH system can drain your account. I know one person who wrote a check to a bill collector, then the bill collector entered their numbers into the their ACH system and started taking regular withdrawals from the account without the owners permission. The owner had to close the account to make it stop.
That one was like 15 years ago - I think the laws around debt collections are better today, but the ACH system is still fundamentally the same system.
Tracking packages so I could batch my trips to post office. Simple web interface where I have a list of packages I've ordered with the last status update from post service web tracking for.
cool, what API are you using for getting the tracking information?
I'm glad my national post office provides that data at all via their website.