Ask HN: What do you automate in your life and work?

Post by wp381640 » Mon, Oct 28, 2019, 10:27 AM UTC

erichocean wrote: post #91

shostack wrote: post #29

Nothing fancy or involved at all, but in my personal finance spreadsheet, I dynamically pull in Zillow's current estimate of my home value (which I take with a grain of salt obviously). I also use IFTTT to pause my robovac if my doorbell rings. Right now I'm working on a Mint scraper to automate the rest of my personal finance data entry, but running into headaches getting Selenium to work properly on Catalina.

Puppeteer is way better for scraping.

Post by dmak » Mon, Oct 28, 2019, 10:54 AM UTC

erikhayton wrote: post #49

I automate most things I do more than a dozen times. Marketing for my wife's uncle was a pain, so we automated CL and FB posts to fire from Quickbooks Inventory on a schedule. I'm full-time remote, so I have a spreadsheet that tracks my expenses from a google form, does currency conversions for my location and forex analysis to tell me the best day to pull money from an ATM, tells me how much I have to spend on food…

Post by dannyfakito » Mon, Oct 28, 2019, 11:15 AM UTC

Post by simon1573 » Mon, Oct 28, 2019, 11:52 AM UTC

dgudkov wrote: post #93

Very mundane tasks but it saves me some time: * Automatically clean Windows desktop from garbage and temporary files that are older than 15 minutes * Download and parse Ngnix web-logs every day, extract notable events * Send myself email notifications about certain currency rates hitting certain thresholds * Backup certain folders on schedule * Pull data submitted by others from Google Sheets, export it into a databa…

Post by nestorherre » Mon, Oct 28, 2019, 11:55 AM UTC

kdbg wrote: post #108

This might sound a little-bit stupid, but I automate locking/unlocking internet access on my phone and computer. That is to say, every night my computers and phone will lock me out[0] at a set time. Then in the morning I have to log 30 minutes of exercise (tracked by my heartrate on fitbit) to unlock internet access. I also have certain time-wasting sites like Reddit and Netflix locked out until I complete a sufficie…