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Marco Arment

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Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And so this way, yeah, then gave it its own little sandbox and let it run amok.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And I can choose to push that, you know, to main, or I can choose to just leave it on my computer.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

No harm, no foul.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Yeah.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Really quickly, I know we haven't given Marco a chance to talk and I apologize, but as an example of something that worked out super duper well for me, I think at this point I was using ChatGPT, but for various uninteresting reasons, I was exposed to N8N, like the letter N, numeral eight, letter N, which is a workflow like automation thing that you can self-host.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And I wanted to have a notification in the morning that would tell me what LAMPs

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

thing the kids were doing so that's um shoot um library art music uh shoot i'm forgetting uh sports i guess no pe and something else i forget it basically uh what what special class they have each day and

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

this is actually a really complicated problem to solve because it's not exposed anywhere by the school system or anything like that and so i built an n8n mostly by asking chat gpt to do stuff a whole thing that will like go and figure out what is the calendar for the school district do they have school today is it a half day uh do they have a snow delay do are they or are they out because of snow and based on such and such a like reference date count forward a

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

All the school days from that reference date to figure out, okay, this is day number three, which means Michaela has library and Declan has counseling.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And then send me a push notification at 645 while we're sitting down to breakfast so I can ask them, oh, are you excited for library and counseling and so on and so forth?

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

This is dumb.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

This is very Casey.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

I get that.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

You don't need to make fun of me.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

I am well aware.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Right?

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

I'm saying, like, this is a stupid thing.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

It's a stupid thing because I could never friggin' remember what their specials were each day.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And it's driving me crazy.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And so I built this thing, mostly with ChatGPT, that will help me do this and help me figure it out.