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9 entries tagged AUTOMATION. Show all
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- Teaching an AI to play an old Flash game so I don't have to A Playwright bot drives Onslaught 2 inside Ruffle and asks a reasoning model where to put turrets. It never looks at the screen, and the bugs that mattered were about timing and keyboard focus.
- From 15 Minutes of Hand-Editing to 100+ Videos a Day The full evolution of a YouTube content pipeline: script generation, batch image creation, SRT translation, and rendering at a scale where one human had to stop being the bottleneck.
- The SSO Autoclicker, and What MV3 Cost Me I turned two Tampermonkey userscripts into a Manifest V3 Chrome extension that clicks through my company's SSO silently — and reimplemented TOTP from scratch because MV3 won't let you fetch a CDN.
- Uploading to YouTube While I Sleep How we automated video uploads to a fleet of YouTube channels with an anti-detect browser, Playwright, and Windows Task Scheduler — and the one SRT bug that kept coming back to bite.
- The Power of GAS: Free Compute Hiding Inside Your Google Account Google Apps Script is the least glamorous platform I run code on, and possibly the highest-leverage: my lunch orders, inbox hygiene, and half my finance pipeline run on it — for free, with zero OAuth ceremony.
- ai-bot: A Rust Telegram Bot Is the Front Door to My Money Stack Xu and Chia both have web UIs. Nobody in my house uses them. The interface everyone actually uses is a small Rust bot that turns Telegram messages into API calls — with an LLM doing the translation.
- Tiền: The Robot That Reads My Bank's Email So I Don't Have To Banks won't give me an API, but they can't stop sending email. So a Cloudflare Worker parses every transaction alert, pings Telegram with category buttons, and routes the results to the rest of my money stack.
- The Userscript Exoskeleton: Automating the Last Mile in the Browser Some automation can't live on a server — it has to happen inside the logged-in browser tab, between me and the web apps I'm forced to use. Tampermonkey is where those fixes live.
- Removing one coin from the backtest flipped the answer I asked an agent to find a paper trading setup with fewer bots. Its winner looked great until a test that deleted SOL from the universe showed one sleeve earning 96% of its profit from that one coin.