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Re: Ask HN: What's are your personal automations?

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Post by unwantedchild »

otagekki wrote: post #113

As a heavy web radio listener, I set up a Jenkins server to switch between radio stations according to the time of day. Time is in UTC: - BBC4 (UK) from 12.45am ~ 1am - KZOO (US) from 1am~6am - RDB (Madagascar) at 6~8am - FM Miki (Japan) on weekdays or BBC2 (UK) on weekends from 8am~12pm - RDB (Madagascar) from 12pm~2pm - Radio Vaovao Mahasoa (Madagascar) from 2pm~4pm - BBC4 from 4pm~7pm - ABC Radio (Honduras) from 7…

That's very unusual! I like it! You should definitely do a raspberry pi radio with such feature and sold it on etsy or somewhere.

Re: Ask HN: What's are your personal automations?

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Post by mod »

frslm wrote: post #105

A hacked-together app that I use to curate my Spotify playlists while driving (using my car's steering wheel buttons) E.g. double-clicking pause/play removes the currently-playing song from a playlist, while letting the song finish adds it to my "liked" playlist (I also have an IFTTT trigger that continuously pulls songs from r/listentothis into a Spotify playlist, so I can use that curator to save any interesting so…

How do your buttons interact with your app? Does the car expose an API or something?

Re: Ask HN: What's are your personal automations?

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Post by jacknews »

actionowl wrote: post #96
jacknews wrote: post #79

I realise this might not be what the question has in mind, but we have a bread machine. Just buying bread might be more 'automatic', but we've been evolving the process and recipe for the last 6+ months, and honestly the bread is now better than any but the best artisan loaves available locally, and hugely cheaper. To save time, and overcome laziness, we pre-mix 'wet' and 'dry' 'kits' in batches of 6 or 10 loaves at…

You might have just convinced me to buy a bread machine... To add a similar answer, only in the past couple of years have I had a nice rice cooker (we have a Zojirushi) that keeps the rice fresh for ~12 hours. It is irreplaceable at this point (My wife is Asian and rice is a part of pretty much every meal.) Best appliance I have ever bought, gets used every. single. day. and have rice ready-to-eat throughout the day.

"You might have just convinced me to buy a bread machine..."

It also makes excellent pizza dough ...

"My wife is Asian and rice is a part of pretty much every meal."

Strangely, I am in a similar situation, and do not have a rice cooker. Time to go shopping.

Re: Ask HN: What's are your personal automations?

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Post by smichael »

captbaritone wrote: post #39

A cron job that runs on a server and sends me a daily digest email. It’s composed of a number of modules that each check one thing and report a message and a “severity”. The glue code then orders them and send the email. Currently it checks: Twitter follows/unfollows for me, my wife, and my Twitter bot Stock movements for the few stocks (RSUs) I have Confirmation that several daily backups (db dumps etc) were success…

Nice! I'd like to see that.

Re: Ask HN: What's are your personal automations?

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Post by lenova »

jacknews wrote: post #79

I realise this might not be what the question has in mind, but we have a bread machine. Just buying bread might be more 'automatic', but we've been evolving the process and recipe for the last 6+ months, and honestly the bread is now better than any but the best artisan loaves available locally, and hugely cheaper. To save time, and overcome laziness, we pre-mix 'wet' and 'dry' 'kits' in batches of 6 or 10 loaves at…

Sorry for the late reply, but what's your go-to bread machine recipe?

Re: Ask HN: What's are your personal automations?

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Post by jacknews »

lenova wrote: post #156
jacknews wrote: post #79

I realise this might not be what the question has in mind, but we have a bread machine. Just buying bread might be more 'automatic', but we've been evolving the process and recipe for the last 6+ months, and honestly the bread is now better than any but the best artisan loaves available locally, and hugely cheaper. To save time, and overcome laziness, we pre-mix 'wet' and 'dry' 'kits' in batches of 6 or 10 loaves at…

Sorry for the late reply, but what's your go-to bread machine recipe?

~750g multigrain

wet kit (optimised to fill a nominal 330ml bottle):

  water       301g
  oil          30g
  salt         10g
  honey        10g 
  sugar         9g (or just 20g honey)  
  cider vinegar 5g
  lime juice    5g
dry kit:

  white flour  400g (still experimenting to replace some of this with healthier options)
  quick oats    50g  
  wholemeal     30g (coarse)
  white sesame  tbsp
  black sesame  tbsp
  sunflower     tbsp
  flax          1/2 tbsp
  milk powder   12g
  ginger powder 1g or 1/4 tsp

  yeast ~8g
It may or may not work well for anyone else. The initial goal was to replicate the 'Alpine' loaf that we used to buy regularly. We've gradually evolved the recipe for our specific machine, flour, process, etc, and I think we've now actually surpassed the goal by some margin.

Re: Ask HN: What's are your personal automations?

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Post by lenova »

jacknews wrote: post #157
lenova wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry for the late reply, but what's your go-to bread machine recipe?

~750g multigrain wet kit (optimised to fill a nominal 330ml bottle): water 301g oil 30g salt 10g honey 10g sugar 9g (or just 20g honey) cider vinegar 5g lime juice 5g dry kit: white flour 400g (still experimenting to replace some of this with healthier options) quick oats 50g wholemeal 30g (coarse) white sesame tbsp black sesame tbsp sunflower tbsp flax 1/2 tbsp milk powder 12g ginger powder 1g or 1/4 tsp yeast ~8g I…

Champion! I am going to try this out this week, thank you very much!

Re: Ask HN: What's are your personal automations?

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Post by jacknews »

lenova wrote: post #158
jacknews wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

~750g multigrain wet kit (optimised to fill a nominal 330ml bottle): water 301g oil 30g salt 10g honey 10g sugar 9g (or just 20g honey) cider vinegar 5g lime juice 5g dry kit: white flour 400g (still experimenting to replace some of this with healthier options) quick oats 50g wholemeal 30g (coarse) white sesame tbsp black sesame tbsp sunflower tbsp flax 1/2 tbsp milk powder 12g ginger powder 1g or 1/4 tsp yeast ~8g I…

Champion! I am going to try this out this week, thank you very much!

Good luck! Let me know how it goes, especially if you have any suggestions or improvements.
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