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

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One of my favorite automations is a slack bot I made to send me a message when a process finishes: https://github.com/spohngellert-o/SlackProcessTrackerBot

As a data scientist I often run code that takes hours, and getting a slack message when it finishes is super helpful, and it has often helped me catch when a script finishes too early due to some error.

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

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One of my favorite automations is a slack bot I made to send me a message when a process finishes: https://github.com/spohngellert-o/SlackProcessTrackerBot As a data scientist I often run code that takes hours, and getting a slack message when it finishes is super helpful, and it has often helped me catch when a script finishes too early due to some error.

I do the same thing, but I use the Twilio CLI to send me a text so that I can get up and walk around if the process is blocking other work. (:

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

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Journaling. I have a shell script that that creates a new markdown file for that day, which I write my journal entry into. Another script compiles a year's worth of journal entries into an epub. Another workflow I made is similar, but for tasks. So every day I run a shell script that copies the last day's tasks to a new file with the new day's date, forcing me to evaluate what was done the previous day (if anything).…

What editor do you use for writing in the markdown files?

I've tried org-journal in Emacs but I could never get over the learning curve of Emacs + org-journal.

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