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restart all things every night.
What do you need to restart? I tend to leave things running...I used to reboot my servers once a year, but now I'm not sure I'll even bother with that.
I tend to propagate errors and let supervisor handle failing apps. But it's the way it is now.
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I go about automation in even less efficient way. I spend many months doing repetitive tasks. And than I realize I should automate them, and proceed to spend hours coming up with scripts/tools to automate them. Happens way too often...
Check out the ski rental problem, it will explain how much manual work to do before automation is right.
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Check out the ski rental problem, it will explain how much manual work to do before automation is right.
I tried googling for this and didn't find anything - do you have a link?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_rental_problem
[...] The ski rental problem is the name given to a class of problems in which there is a choice between continuing to pay a repeating cost or paying a one-time cost which eliminates or reduces the repeating cost. [...]
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.
It lacks (or lacked a couple of months ago when I last tried it) functionality that I deem indispensable, like putting and importing all the movies from the same directory (it wants - or wanted - every movie to be in its own directory).
Also, it uses a lot more memory. Which is probably fine for most people, but since my little server only has 1.5 GB RAM, it really makes a difference for me.
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.
In Lausanne, Switzerland, it's very difficult to find an appartement because there are too few appartements for too many people and it mostly follows "First-come, first-served". So I created scrappers for 3 websites + 1 facebook group. It simply looks for apartments with my specifications and notify me when a new one comes up. I can say, I successfully found an apartment. The whole process usually takes at least 3 mo…
Sounds like you've got a business in hand
Library book renewals. I have an AWS Lambda function that runs daily, scrapes html from my public library (they have no API), and if a book is due within the next day, renews it. If I've reached max renewals, it sends me a notification.
Do you have this project hosted anywhere?
My most proud "automation" was writing a bot that would play Farmville for me. I was at university, and Farmville was all the rage on Facebook. My girlfriend wanted me to play because it'd mean she'd be able to trade stuff with me or something (I forget why exactly), and I eventually caved in. After ten minutes of playing it, I was bored. I couldn't really judge people that would click plants hundreds of times, sever…
I had tons of startup ideas that I'd always wanted to give it a try. After a point, it became frustrating to test them out one by one, either by writing custom applications in Rails or use Wordpress. But, both costed me a significant amount of time. For example, I had this idea for a travel startup for a very, very long time and I decided to build it on Wordpress. The monetization model was selling some E-Commerce it…
Interesting approach (and a good idea). Have you found any negatives with operating this kind of system?
I had tons of startup ideas that I'd always wanted to give it a try. After a point, it became frustrating to test them out one by one, either by writing custom applications in Rails or use Wordpress. But, both costed me a significant amount of time. For example, I had this idea for a travel startup for a very, very long time and I decided to build it on Wordpress. The monetization model was selling some E-Commerce it…
You just described a multimillion dollar idea.