To all my tech geek friends,
I got this from a lawyer buddy, his nephew is in a tech area.
A few years ago I looked at a Adafruit feather Huzzah project to do something
like this.
> From: J
> Subject: From my non-engineer nephew in Palo Alto
> Date: April 12, 2020 at 4:26:25 PM EDT
> To:
>
> Subject: He who cannot code, cannot eat
>
>
> It's become apparent that it's virtually impossible to get a curbside pickup
> time slot at any of the local grocery stores. When one becomes available, it
> is literally snapped up within seconds. So quickly, in fact, that I came to
> the conclusion people must be using automation. This is just one more reason
> why it often sucks to live in the same vicinity as 100,000 other software
> engineers.
>
> So, I joined the arms race, analyzed the underlying API of the store's
> website, and wrote a program that checks for available time slots every 15
> seconds, and if any are found, reserves the first one instantly. Then it
> turns on a light in the bedroom to alert me that I have a reservation, and
> after that I have one hour to complete the checkout. I was walking around in
> circles in the yard last night when I saw the light come on, so I came in and
> discovered I have a time on Wednesday evening.
>
> Pity those poor suckers in Silicon Valley who don't know how to code. Kind
> of darkly funny that it has finally come to this: if you can't program a
> computer, you can take your chances with COVID, or starve, I guess.
Be safe,
Alan Wiggs
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