Automation

The big idea: Identifying repetition → making your own tools.

Computers are great at doing repetitive tasks. Any time you find yourself doing the same thing over and over again, it’s worth considering: can I automate this? In my experience, the answer to this questions is always, always “yes”.

In my talk, this section was broken down into three parts:

Automation in an app – a demo of how I made scorecards in Cavalry.

Application scripting – writing scripts to control apps.

Scripting the system – saving time writing small scripts to automate system tasks.