In my blog you'll find posts on how I've automated things in my life or at work. I also write about learnings and the latest updates about my journey as an entrepreneur to my advisors.
A venue recording service locks videos behind a mobile-only deep link and requires a valid auth token to load. Here's how I extracted the token via mitmproxy on iPhone, and automated the download-to-YouTube pipeline.
I wanted to know whether it was worth burning Hyatt points on specific properties in Brazil instead of paying cash. The answer required live rates and a CPP calculation. I built a Python scraper using Chrome cookie injection to pull both cash and award rates for a list of properties and compute the math automatically.
A popular public tennis center near me opens its booking window at 7 AM for the next day only. Courts fill in minutes. I built a bot that logs in, picks a slot, solves the CAPTCHA, and pays — plus a Telegram interface so I can queue bookings the night before from my phone.
A Power Automate flow silently failed for 10 days, writing nothing to Excel. Here's how I found out what was lost, confirmed which payments were actually missing, and got it done in under an hour.
Michigan House and Senate hearing videos are public but have no transcripts. I built a pipeline that scrapes the videos, downloads them, transcribes with Whisper large-v3, runs QC scoring on every segment, applies grammar correction, uploads to S3, and runs three times daily on GitHub Actions — completely unattended.