My current obsession is sticking little NFC stickers on anything and everything to automate stuff with #Tasker as the trigger.
🚰 Tag on the water bottle? Scan to log water consumption.
🐕 Tag next to the dog leash? Start the #Toggl time entry for walking my dog.
📺 Two on the back of the TV remote for watching YouTube or movies (the movie one dims the lights).
👕 One on the washing machine to start a timer to remind me to put the clothes in the dryer.
Well, after a bit of fumbling, I'm releasing the first version of my first #Android app, Timekeeper.
Timekeeper is a #Tasker plugin to automate interacting with #Toggl Track for time tracking. My main use case is things like scanning NFC tags around the house when I'm doing various things.
It only does some basic time entry starting and stopping now, but it's a good starting point. If that's something you might benefit from, consider checking it out.
Leadership can be skeptical of practices like pair or ensemble programming. It seems to be less efficient to have multiple people work on the same tasks.
Leadership could be made to understand that if you want to hunt a mammoth, sending out 5 people to hunt 5 mammoths individually is less effective and tends to result in no mammoths and potentially trampled team members. Not all projects are mammoth-like in nature, but many of the harder ones will be. Hunt that mammoth together.
I use the HTTP request actions in #Tasker to automate the creation of time entries in #Toggl, but that's been pretty darn flaky for me recently. Not sure if that's my internet, my phone, or Toggl's API blocking my requests.
Tasker provides a library and POC code for creating native plugins. So, let's try that! It's an excuse to get back into some #Flutter development, and it'll force me to get exposed to #Gradle and #Kotlin.