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Automating my work life

I chose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

— Bill Gates

The usual

If my work life was a story, every chapter would start something like this...

I did not realize these things had these properties! I wonder how many of these things exist with this, that, or the other thing? If I give you a list of the things I care about, can you do a "search" and give me a list of things that have the properties I am looking for?

— Ends (aka End Users)

The Usual diagram

Requirements

  1. Vault - I am using the Vault CLI to access secrets for API calls (vaultOAuthToken.mjs line 15)

  2. Google Cloud - I am using the gcloud CLI to authenticate and access BigQuery

gcloud CLI - Authorize with a user account

gcloud auth application-default login