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Using the google rss notification (e-mail) for keywords which I am interested in (e.g my name, stock ticker and company name etc).
I use www.hnreplies.com for alerts when someone responds to my HN comments.
I run Home Assistant with Zigbee devices for automatic lighting at home: - switch on when I get home and sun is set - switch on when I'm home and the sun sets - switch on in the morning, full brightness, coldest color to help waking up (really helps me a lot and is not as stressful as an alarm clock) - automatically turn light off when I (my smartphone) leave home (not visible in the WLAN for 10 minutes) Will look in…
Interested why you use the coldest colour for waking up? I do the same, but use a sunrise simulation instead that goes from warm to cold.
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Some more items that I've setup in AHK: - Launching commonly used apps, like Notepad, Windows Explorer or Sublime Text - Launching commonly used websites in a browser, e.g. gmail - Paste from the clipboard into a language translation site (languageX to languageY via URL parameters) - Open a to do list in Excel (hard coded file path) - Text expansion for personal and work email addresses - With one keypress, open the…
Hopefully you are prolific enough in AHK to use it directly, for all other people I suggest Lintalist: https://lintalist.github.io/ which is a AHK based tool, very easy also for the "casual" user (like I am).
Another very useful tool that I recommend for automating PixelSearch and the like is Pulover's Macro Creator:
It spits out AHK code after recording actions (e.g. a long mouse and keyboard sequence), it's a great time saver for more complex scripts.
I manage a Family Office and do monthly performance presentations with PowerPoint, the slides have an unique design, and updating them every month became extremely tedious and error prone. I was already looking for an excuse to learn Python and this was perfect. Instead of recreating the slides I created templates (just the last set of presentations) and update them with info directly queried from the database, using…
I manage a Family Office and do monthly performance presentations with PowerPoint, the slides have an unique design, and updating them every month became extremely tedious and error prone. I was already looking for an excuse to learn Python and this was perfect. Instead of recreating the slides I created templates (just the last set of presentations) and update them with info directly queried from the database, using…
At one point I decided that it would be nice to add header images to every issue. I decided to do it through a quick and dirty python script that adds the text for me.
Another thing I've just recently automated is the python script calling mailchimp API to show me the most popular link together with unique opens. I'm currently planning to embedd this info in every issue.
The next step that I'd like to automate is the campaign creation. With the API I don't suppose this will be a huge deal, just need to put some time on this. When I have it then I'd like to create a commit hook that will do all of these things automatically after pushing changes to the repo.
I have a slack workspace that has several bots, some listen for specific keywords and or phrases around the web and post to the relevant channels. Other bots remind me if I'm slacking off (maybe stayed a little too long on youtube), remind me of appointments, to drink water, if a stock price falls and some more. Also have filtered rss feeds for business and finance news etc. All of these bots also have custom identit…
Oh cool, I didn't know if others were doing this. I've recently just started going down this path with some zero effort IFTTT triggers but I'm not happy with how infrequent they seem to trigger. My next step is to build my own set of listeners/scrapers.
* A change in GBP -> NOK exchange rate, to indicate if it's a good time to buy ready for my next trip to Norway.
* Alerts on flight prices to help me purchase flights when they're at their cheapest.
* Daily digest email with content I'm interested in from HN and some web comics.
* A summary of new content coming into my RSS reader.
It works really well for this sort of stuff and I found it fairly easy to get up and running.
* At least on one of the three locations my cv lives... the next step is to point all the other domains at my new CI/CD home...
I build a web site https://visalogy.com with help of a keyboard/mouse automation tool. It was too simple to just automate and control my laptop with scrolling to certain web pages, xpath the elements, and copy-pasta data to a CSV file. Nowadays, I use bash scripts to automate some scraping. Cron scripts in Travis CI are amazing, this https://visalogy.com web site practically runs by itself thanks to them.
Anyway, great work to build such a useful site!
- I mostly automate my bookkeeping with a set of recurring & dependent taskwarrior tasks and scripts as annotations that I run with taskopen[1]. That's creating a bunch of folders, turning some emails in mutt into PDFs, gathering PDFs from emails, fetching bills with selenium, moving files from $DOWNLOADS into the appropriate bookeeping folder, putting a date on some files, turning the whole thing into a zip file, and sending it to the bookkeeper with mailx.
- I automated the email send of my daily summary to my clients with mailx (so I can send it directly from vim)
- I automated turning screen recordings into thumbnails+mp4 link (since GitHub only supports gifs)
- I automated making before/after screen recordings for when I do noticeable performance improvements (page load/animations)
- I automated booting/killing my development servers
- I automated making PRs with `hub pr` (finding the origin/upstream, putting labels, etc.)
- I bound to a key combo switching to the logs of specific development servers
- I turned my client's time tracking (tempo) into a CLI because I got tired of using the UI to say I worked X hours on that ticket and 7.5 - X on the other. Now I only do `tempo log $ticket1 2h $ticket2 3h $supportTicket rest`