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Marco Arment

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Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And so I'm just sitting there at breakfast, and then bloop, my phone says, hey, guess what?

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Declan has counseling or whatever I just said, and Mikhail has library.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

It doesn't matter.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

You get the idea.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And this is actually, again...

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

very complicated because you're pulling in all these different pieces.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And some of that is a testament to N8N, which is very cool and very, very weird, but very cool.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

But a lot of this was me saying to chat GPT, Hey, I'm targeting N8N.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Can you write me a bunch of JavaScript that I'll plug into a node in N8N that will do this thing?

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And I, I mostly told it like in, you know, this is the step where I need you to parse out

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

the school calendar and tell me whether or not today is a school day.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And then the next note is, all right, given that today is a school day, count from this reference date and figure out how many school days there's been.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

I forget exactly how it works.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

We get the idea, right?

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

So I'm breaking down the major problem into micro problems and having ChatGPT figured out.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And it took some back and forth, but I'll be damned if it didn't work.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And it is freaking cool.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And it solves a problem for me.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

So in the one breath, I'll tell you, for call sheet, I've had not great luck for the most part.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

I had some