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I love automating things!

- Automatic cat food dispenser

- Smarthome with HomeKit for lights, fans and stuff. Using motion sensors and time based automations a lot

- Browser extension to automatically add Japanese words I look up to my Anki deck

- scripts to automatically ocr documents in my Dropbox, run it through classification for automatic renaming and information extraction, then add it to DEVONthink for archiving. Then using a document scanner app to throw things into Dropbox

- ifttt / zapier actions to add pull request reviews to my todo list, automatically translate Japanese messages to English with slack reactions, backup posts/pictures I am tagged in on Facebook, and and and

- AppleScripts to generate random usernames, one time emails (with date and website encoded) and logging generations in DEVONthink

- mini bots to normalize pull Request titles / descriptions, link them to JIRA tickets, assign them to the PR opener, transition to “in progress”

- sieve Filters to automatically bounce expired emails, organize based on website, automatically redirect tracking emails to Deliveries, add flight emails to flight tracking apps

- cli tools to clock me in, clock me out and warn me if I’m under my agreed hours at work

- a lot of workflow workflows on my phone to do things like: navigate me home, find a Starbucks, and heaps of other smaller things

...and probably many more. In general, if I have to do something manually more than 3-4 times and I notice a pattern, I try to automate it



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