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

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Post by jsilence »

helij wrote: post #102
actionowl wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

We bought a bread machine almost three years ago. Since then we are yet to buy bread in a shop. The machine is amazing. It literally takes 3 minutes to prep. No fancy recipe. Spoon of yeast + 400g flour + spoon of sugar + spoon of salt + 20g of butter + 280ml of water. Quick program and fresh bread is done in 2h. Highly recommend it. I don't want to advertise but we bought a well known Japanese brand after a lot of r…

Please advertise! Genuinly curious.

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

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Post by souprock »

If a 1-liner run manually counts, feast your eyes on nearly a kilobyte of awful bash:

    for i in raw-* ; do cat $i | expand | egrep '[A-Z]{3} +[0-9]{4}|/2021' | sed -r -e 's!08/(..)/2021!aug\1!g'  -e 's!09/(..)/2021!sep\1!g' -e 's!10/(..)/2021!oct\1!g' -e 's!12/(..)/2021!dec\1!g' -e 's!01/(..)/2021!jan\1!g' -e 's!05/(..)/2021!may\1!g' -e 's!03/(..)/2021!mar\1!g' -e 's!02/(..)/2021!feb\1!g' -e 's!06/(..)/2021!jun\1!g' -e 's!04/(..)/2021!apr\1!g' -e 's!07/(..)/2021!jul\1!g' -e 's/([a-z]{3}[0-9]{2}) - ([a-z]{3}[0-9]{2})/\1\2/' -e 's!([a-z]{3}[0-9]{2}[a-z]{3}[0-9]{2}) +([0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2} [AP]M)!\1 N/A     \2!' -e 's!Live Online!Lve!' -e 's!Online Course!Onl!'  -e 's!Hybrid Course!Hyb!' -e 's!Face-to-Face!f2f!' -e 's!Directed Study!dir!' -e 's/(..):(..) ([AP])M - (..):(..) ([AP])M/\1\2\3\4\5\6/' -e 's/Palm Bay/PalmBay /' | while read where crn c1 c2 c3 type name ; read dates days time ; do printf "%s %-4s %s %s %-4s %-5s %s %s %s\n" $dates $days $time $type $c1 $c2 $c3 $crn "$name" ; done | sort | uniq | sort -k 5 > not-$i ; done
It chews on the results of a class schedule search: https://www.easternflorida.edu/academics/class-schedule-sear...

The problem being solved is that I have had as many as 4 kids taking classes at once, and that becomes impractical without coordinated schedules. Getting the data into plain text, with exactly one line per class, makes it easy to use grep for picking out possibilities.

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

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Post by otagekki »

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 7pm~9pm

- FM Miki (Japan) on Mon,Wed,Fri or FM PiPi (Tue,Thu,Sat) from 9pm~12.45am

That, in addition to scraping the news of the day from various sources and versioning it in a git repository:

- Yomiuri Shinbun (Japan)

- La Gazette de la Grande Ile (Madagascar)

- Madagascar Tribune (Madagascar)

- The Guardian (UK)

With this, I can listen to my favorite English, Japanese, Malagasy and Hondurian radio without turning any button. The programs being easily recognizable, I effectively no longer need an alarm clock or even a clock to know the time of day provided that I am within the transmission range (yes I have built a very low-power FM radio to overcome bluetooth range limitations).

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

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Post by jbjbjbjb »

I use Streaks habit tracker, Apple Watch and Shortcuts. Streaks can pick up health data to keep my on track for my weekly sleep and exercise goals. And I’ve set up Shortcuts so it increments a counter in Streaks to keep track of when I open Instagram or Twitter. That stops me from mindlessly checking social media but allows me a couple of visits in a day without it breaking the streak.

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

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Post by fendrak »

jsilence wrote: post #111
helij wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We bought a bread machine almost three years ago. Since then we are yet to buy bread in a shop. The machine is amazing. It literally takes 3 minutes to prep. No fancy recipe. Spoon of yeast + 400g flour + spoon of sugar + spoon of salt + 20g of butter + 280ml of water. Quick program and fresh bread is done in 2h. Highly recommend it. I don't want to advertise but we bought a well known Japanese brand after a lot of r…

Please advertise! Genuinly curious.

Probably one of these: https://www.zojirushi.com/app/category/breadmakers

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

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Post by adinosaur123 »

kilroy123 wrote: post #76
adinosaur123 wrote: post #9

I use to spend a lot of time on Reddit looking for conversations that were relevant to my business. Promoting our products in the context of those conversations usually resulted in sales leads. I built a tool earlier this year that streams comments from those forums, analyzes them, and pings me when a relevant conversation is found. I generally keep it running throughout the day in my local Terminal.

Would you mind sharing this tool? Or at least more info about how it's built? I'm using huginn to do something similar but it's a bit janky.

> Would you mind sharing this tool

It's not online. I suppose I could spin it into a web application if the demand was there.

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

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Post by parentheses »

I use Retool. A single user is super cheap.

Building simple apps that track anything (workouts, personal things, baby health things). It's super easy to connect my data and actions to practically anything I want.

It beats the pants off having to wait for company X and company Y to integrate their services.

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