
Outlook to WunderlistĬan’t forget work emails! Using Microsoft Flow, if I flag an email, it is copied into my Wunderlist. If I label an email with ToDo, IFTTT copies into my Wunderlist so I can keep track of my action items. Using IFTTT, whenever I pin to my Recipes to Try board, it tweets it out, tagging my wife, to get her taste buds watering.
#Alexa and wunderlist code#
Using, I can have my .Net code compile and deploy off to some servers too, pretty awesome. That lovely little app compiles all that code, cleans it up and ships it off to the server. One big win for me in writing JavaScript/HTML/CSS is using gulp to automate my CD processes. If you’re not automating, then you’re missing out! I can quit anytime, but I think you should join me! A short list of automations Continuous deployment (CD) & automated builds I thought I’d share my addiction, and see if I can help you realize some things you can do too.

Then I got a little older, a little wiser, and could effectively estimate my time and stop this silly cycle (for the most part). Spending potentially more time trying to figure out my scripts than just manually doing the tasks.

This comic defines well where I was years ago. I can never come up with cool names like that. I was writing routines to automatically deploy my files before DevOps was a buzzword. I wrote code for my clients mostly, and wrote code for me to help me automate my mundane boring tasks. Once I wrote my first VBA script in Access, and saw that I could command the power of the computer (my 486 was killer then), I was hooked. I started down this exciting career path by writing classic ASP and MS Access apps. I’ve been a developer for about 20 years. Is this a bad thing? I like to be efficient, remove the tedious work from my list and let a robot do it instead.

I’m addicted to automation, across all aspects of life. This is post was originally posted at Slalom Technology.
