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Automating My /Now Page
A deep dive into how I automated my now page on my personal website by creating a Go script and making use of GitHub Actions.
Exploring this, led me to another blog post, this time written by Sophie Koonin about how ‘ Everything should have an API ’ which helped me find some services that I could use to track some of my media consumption. Before doing so, I ended up searching for some examples of how others had used Go scripts to automate stuff and came across a great post by Victoria Drake on how you could update your GitHub Profile README using Golang. Then using what I had learnt from the tutorial from Victoria, I put together a GitHub Actions workflow to run the script daily and add the update now.md file as a commit to my main branch.
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