Autohotkey? Naw, you wanna setup a daily cron job to read and replace every one of your common typos with the correct spelling. That's the way, trust me.

Edit: Daily cron job typo correction.

[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Dude, I set up wild crap with Autohotkey, for a job. I had it logging in to vendor websites where it would pull up clients, compare contact info to our local system, check if recent payment had been made, pull appropriate client docs (if not already in our local system), and leave notes for me before moving onto the next client on the list. I had AHK doing most of the job I was hired for.

Thankfully, the multiple vendor websites made occasional changes to their layouts, color schemes, etc. so all my methods of navigation would inevitably break, requiring me to maintain it.

I was also building stuff where it would automatically fire off an email at certain points if there was a special change to tell the client about, if payment wasn't seen on the vendor site by certain deadlines, etc.

That job eventually fell through for unrelated reasons (they moved me off that to somewhere they needed me more, and several years later got pushed out of that position and the company entirely).

Where do I get a job that let's me build that stuff again?!

[–] UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

In a perfect world you could get paid to automate stuff with AHK. I wonder if you could market yourself as an AHK consultant where you basically shadow someone's job for a week and then start figuring out how to automate the tedious stuff.

Personally I like the functionality of AHK but I can't stand the syntax compared to Python and C. I start with such great plans of what I want to automate but get sick of fighting with the language after about an hour and settle for something simple.

[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago

I actually started thinking about exactly this minutes later, and have been VERY excited about trying it. I've been unemployed for awhile now, not by choice, and already have diagnosed depression going back years before. Job market stinks and I'm bad at getting hired. BUT this idea actually excites me, in a way I haven't felt in WAY too long.

I plan to start working on some basic function libraries for myself, rebuilding some things from that old job, and I'll also be contacting local businesses for a start. The old job was for a small business, so I have a decent feel for how to fit it into places.