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Not sure if this counts because I didn't actually code anything: but using gmail filters to automate my personal email flow has had a huge effect on my day.
I'd say it counts. My favorite filter is anything containing "unsubscribe" goes to a "Mailers" folder never to be seen. I don't understand how people can deal with having unread emails in their inbox all the time.
Scraping state lottery website to determine if the daily lottery jackpot amount for a particular game is greater than my threshold to care enough to consider purchasing a single ticket and sending me a text message in the morning if it is.
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Plus, you probably internalized all that cowsay wisdom.
I did have it piping jokes to me, but they weren't very funny. Hmm... I should make the cow tell me the weather.
Expense tracking. My bank sends me one email every time my card is used. - Using the Google Places API I find the related establishment (gives me name, address, phone number, etc) - Using the Gmail API I look for a receipt email (if any) by looking for another email with the same dollar amount and the same date So at any given time I can see all the purchases/payments I've done with rich information about where and e…
What bank do you use that has this feature?
I would imagine other banks have similar functions.
In the morning, I get an Android notification about the stations around my home, and in the evening around my workplace.
I automated downloading and reconciling my financials from all my bank accounts. https://disjoint.ca/projects/ledger-reconciler
This is great, would love to see support for more data sources.
To work around this I tried to make it as developer-friendly as I could so we'll see!
Scraping state lottery website to determine if the daily lottery jackpot amount for a particular game is greater than my threshold to care enough to consider purchasing a single ticket and sending me a text message in the morning if it is.
I hunted down a Black Friday deal which was active only for a couple of minutes at random times using a Python script which was checking the price for different models and was sending emails if the prices fell. Though I've ended up returning the product and learned to bake much tastier bread, without a need for a bread maker. :P
http://nymag.com/restaurants/features/bread-jim-lahey-2011-1...
In college everyone's class registration would open at once, and classes would fill up quickly. Some people would even register for more than they were gonna take, to hold it for friends or just to figure their schedule out. If I didn't get into a class I wanted, I had a HTTPS script set to attempt registering for it every 5 minutes. As soon as somebody dropped it - boom it was mine.
Instead I made an autohotkey script to input my chosen course IDs and submit. Just pasting in a value, , pasting in a value, , etc.
All done in less time than even the savvy registrants who would copy/paste as fast as they could. An earlier iteration used a programmable keyboard macro: AHK wasn't on the lab computers for my first year.
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thats outsourcing, not automating
Well to me it’s automated as I don’t have to do it manually. I see your point, it’s still done by a human but from my point of view it has been automated.