Marco Arment

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

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

It doesn't matter.

You get the idea.

And this is actually, again...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I forget exactly how it works.

We get the idea, right?

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

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

And it is freaking cool.

And it solves a problem for me.

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

I had some