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
I am not too lazy, but I do not enjoy performing a repetitive task for hours on end when I could write a script to do the same thing in a few seconds. I do enjoy learning about technology that can make my life easier and sharing it with other people to make their lives easier.
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)
Requirements¶
-
.env file - I am using a local .env file to access sensitive info like API URLs
-
Vault - I am using the Vault CLI to access secrets for API calls (auth.js line 12)
-
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