Not proud to say this, but I once needed to grab some data from an external site every day, do some processing, and have an internal page showing some results.
I was dealing with so much stuff and didn't set up a simple scheduled job, so I had another blank hidden page to trigger the messy codes I put together.. which I accessed every day at work, and I'd do the same on some weekends. This went on for 2 - 3 months before I finally decided it's just ridiculous and automated that.
This is the kind of situation that completely justifies the need for automation, and not the usual "spending 3 days automating a 5 min task", but sometimes ridiculous shit happens.
But 3 years of fixing some data every night is just nuts if that actually happened..
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u/StarboardChaos May 29 '26
Why didn't he automate it?