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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