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Re: Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?

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Post by vageli »

aabaker99 wrote: post #89
edwinksl wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe containers like Docker are useful for your use case?

Docker can distribute the software needed to run the job well, which is definitely part of the issue and something I should use more. However, I also have in mind a pipeline of scripts where one script may be a prerequisite to the other. Condor has some nice abstractions for this by organizing the scripts/jobs as a directed acyclic graph according to their dependencies. I was thinking other batch systems might suppor…

[Luigi](https://github.com/spotify/luigi) out of Spotify sounds exactly like what you're looking for. It allows you to specify dependent tasks, pipe input/output between them, and more.

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Post by kingbirdy »

raleigh_user wrote: post #284

I automated pretty much all groceries & goods I use through a combination of Shipt and Amazon Subscribe and Save. Took a few hours one Saturday to compile list of everything I use and estimates on needing more but I genuinely enjoy not having to think about if I need toothpaste or if I have food for dinner

How much of a premium does this run you vs shopping for yourself?

Re: Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?

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Post by erikpukinskis »

egypturnash wrote: post #263
murukesh_s wrote: post #255

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was wondering who he thinks a programmer is?

She. A programmer is someone who can program a computer, and chooses to call themselves a programmer. If absolutely nobody is willing to pay them to do so then maybe they're lying when they call themselves one. If you ask me what I do, I'm not gonna say "I program computers", I'm gonna say "I draw comics and stuff". Because that's what I spend my work life doing. And occasionally I need to do some tedious task, and f…

I would call that a professional programmer.

Like, you can be a swimmer, or you can be a professional swimmer. You have to be a painter a long time before you sell your stuff.

Money is as much a corrupting influence as it is a validator of talent and a correlate to time spent.

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Post by herbst »

wslh wrote: post #32

Designing and developing UIs. I want to develop web UIs like you develop UIs with Visual Studio or Xcode. I cannot believe how much efforts we need to build and modify web experiences.

It's funny because I can't believe how much effort some people spend to build guis in graphical editors. Guess it's a preference thing

Re: Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?

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Post by el_benhameen »

juancampa wrote: post #254
nurettin wrote: post #80

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.

Relevant for people working/living in SF: http://www.isthereagiantsgametoday.com/

Haha, I guess my isthereapadreshomegametoday.com wasn't as uniquely clever as I thought.

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Post by jriese »

sergiotapia wrote: post #85

Download media. I have Sonarr+Radarr+Plex. I don't spend much time looking for media. Code reviews. Using something like CodeClimate to automatically check code quality before anyone actually reads the code.

How do you think Radarr compares to Couchpotato? Considering making the switch, since Sonarr has been fantastic.

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Post by mcgrath_sh »

ajarmst wrote: post #22

I'm the kind of nerd who greatly prefers writing automation code to doing anything remotely repetitive. (I'm afraid to work out the actual timings because I'm pretty sure that I often spend more time coming up with the automation than just doing the task would take). I've got a script that automatically rips, converts and stitches together audiobooks from the library so that I can play them on my phone. It just beeps…

I'd be really interested in that audiobook script. I have some that are ripped but not stitched together. I want to get to the point where all my audiobooks are one file.

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Post by [deleted] »

Huhty wrote: post #73

MY team and I run a reddit/HN-like community platform called Snapzu and we automate most (90%) of our social media channels. We have 15 main categories, each with their own Twitter, Medium, WP, Blogger, etc. Here's an example of our science Twitter account: http://twitter.com/@Snapzu_Science

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Re: Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?

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Post by rthomas6 »

ajarmst wrote: post #22

I'm the kind of nerd who greatly prefers writing automation code to doing anything remotely repetitive. (I'm afraid to work out the actual timings because I'm pretty sure that I often spend more time coming up with the automation than just doing the task would take). I've got a script that automatically rips, converts and stitches together audiobooks from the library so that I can play them on my phone. It just beeps…

Just a PSA for anyone who happens across this: There are some apps for Android that understand and play multi-file audiobooks just fine. I use Smart Audiobook Player and it works great.
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