Zen and the Art of Incremental Automation
summary
Describes turning a pile of a few dozen location rows and daily updates into repeatable steps that cut toil: capture every step in a markdown scratchpad, refine commands into a Vim macro, convert notes into a do-nothing Ruby script that prints steps and pauses with gets, extract snippets into a rake task and CLI helpers, push docs and scripts into the repo, then add a file upload input to the admin UI so users self-serve — incremental work that scales into a real feature.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:02Automation promise
- 3:30Zen automation mindset
- 5:59Always capture work
- 9:53Incremental improvements
- 14:50Share with team
- 21:54Secret killer app
- 22:37Why incremental automation
- 25:27Thousand-mile journey
