17 | All Things Automated [Compressed.fm]

In this episode, James and Amy talk about all the things they've automated. James in particular has several workflows within AirTable for generating stream graphics, sending out tweets, and generating his email newsletter.

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Show Notes

0:00 Introduction

4:01 Automating Overview

6:48 CI/CD Pipelines

Deploybot
Publishing as soon as a commit is made to the master branch on GitHub

10:49 Sponsor: Vercel

12:08 Automations with IFTTT and Zapier

15:12 Checklists

16:37 Using AirTable forms to Create Stream Graphics using Cloudinary

24:25 Serverless Functions Overview

25:42 Integration with Sanity.io

28:46 Determining what to Automate

30:25 Sharing content from the Learn Build Teach Discord Community

Listen to commands within the Discord community and saves the content to AirTable
Flag for sharing to Twitter
Flag for sharing within the Email Newsletter
Node Chron for automatically tweeting

34:38 Sponsor: ZEAL

36:17 Button within AirTable for collecting and formatting email newsletters

38:29 Automating Tweets to promote the stream

39:18 Grab Bag Questions

39:51 Grab Bag Question #1: What tools do you use to automate tasks? Do you program as many automations as possible? And do you use IFTTT?