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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

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)

The Usual diagram

Requirements

  1. .env file - I am using a local .env file to access sensitive info like API URLs

  2. Vault - I am using the Vault CLI to access secrets for API calls (auth.js line 12)

  3. 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