Jess Frazelle argues that automation is fundamentally about reclaiming time by transferring repetitive manual tasks to scripts and services. She presents a simple equation: time gained equals time doing the task manually minus time to automate it. The post covers her personal automations (employee onboarding in Rust, Gmail filters, newsletter management) while celebrating how consumer tools like Apple Shortcuts, home automation, and IFTTT are democratizing automation patterns for non-programmers.
Apr 18, 2020 InfrastructureCareer Reflections