That's pretty awesome. I wish I had the skills to do something like that. I was never good at coding to begin with, but even thinking to do something like that and then putting it into practice feels about as dauting to me as climbing a mountain. I hope you have a good time on your cruise.

The older I get, the more I want to revert to pencil and engineering pad. I haven't done much programming since I left my FORTRAN behind to raise my wonderful children. Happy for those of you who can program in the modern languages, though. !BBH

Maybe you should sell access to that automation as a service to other cruisers?
I probably wouldn't openly advertise it to avoid the wrath of the cruise line, but I would sure let people know they can have it done for xx usd per xx time.
I'm sure as an app folks would happily use it.

I do something like this, except I use keyboard maestro to capture changes to the price. The only problem is I have to actually visit the page for KM to capture it, or, well, I have an applescript that occasionally opens the page, checks, and closes it, but that also has the problem of only working when my computer is on. Your solution sounds much smoother!

But anyway, yeah, automation for the win. I'm totally with you there.

I have a spreadsheet where I track my shares performance and a bunch of other information. My husband previously did something for me where it pulled the latest share price when I opened up my spreadsheet and it would automatically update the data. Then the source data changed its format and the auto update stopped working. Now I have to manually key in the latest price. Fortunately my portfolio isn't very wide, still doable, just a bit petty.

Maybe I should get him to look at it again to save me work.

So you're a cruiser as well!! Learnt something new about you by today!!

What I wish I had was an automated alert for changes to content embargoes I have. Along with release date changes to a product's release date.

I might get an email, or an internal platform system message, or the contract itself gets updated, or the developer updates a notice on an internal page, or an alert on a messaging app, or they make a public release statement on any number of websites.

They could also just not communicate anything at all. Deciding 48 hours after they were supposed to release the game it’s now being delayed by 2 months. Along with not wanting content creators to release any content.

So, this ends up being time spent exceeding the problem. The number of places needing to be checked is always changing with each company I’m dealing with. Even assuming there is an embargo in the first place. Secondly how they decide to announce any delays to a game being released. Finally, if I even have any content that would be affected by any changes.

The best I can hope for is some news feeds and a game developer sending out a proper notification to an internal system.

You replied back to a question a few weeks back and said you were out in the middle of the oceans and not much you could do. I envisioned you on the back of a large boat deep sea fishing, lol.

The only thing programming I know is probably just HTML/CSS🥲, most of which I do not remember cos I don't do it regularly. I hope it comes in handy someday or maybe I learn some other code.

But asides from the technical part of things, I think the idea of systematically approaching things would help. Even without automating, there are tasks we could achieve in everyday life that would be easier if we approached it differently.

If we really thought about better ways of doing stuff, I think we would find ourselves perhaps already unconsciously looking for automated solutions.

Little things like alarms, reminders, workflows, notes are in some way already automations that can make a lot of difference if we use them well.

Wish I learned how to code back when I was younger.

!PIZZA