Marco Arment

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

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

No harm, no foul.

Yeah.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

This is dumb.

This is very Casey.

I get that.

You don't need to make fun of me.

I am well aware.

Right?

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

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

And it's driving me crazy.

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