Alright, alright, let’s spill the beans on this little experiment I cooked up last night. You know, one of those “drunk thoughts” that actually seemed brilliant at the time? Yeah, this is about that.
So, it started simple. I was chilling, couple of beers in, and I was thinking about how much I hate doing [insert mundane task here]. I was like, “There HAS to be a better way!” And that’s when the idea hit me. I grabbed my laptop – bless my heart for not spilling beer all over it – and started hacking away.
First thing I did was Google “Python automation [mundane task]”. I know, real original, right? But hey, gotta start somewhere. Found a couple of promising libraries, spent like an hour trying to figure out the documentation (which, let’s be honest, was a mess). Finally managed to install the right dependencies without breaking everything. Small victories, people, small victories.
Then came the coding. Now, I’m no coding genius, okay? I’m more of a “copy-paste-modify until it works” kinda guy. So I grabbed some sample code from Stack Overflow (don’t judge me!), tweaked it to fit my needs, and prayed it wouldn’t explode. There were a LOT of error messages. A LOT.
But you know what? After about three hours of banging my head against the keyboard, I actually got something working! It wasn’t pretty, and it probably violates every coding best practice in the book, but it did the damn thing! I literally jumped up and down like a kid on Christmas morning. My cat was not impressed.
Here’s the breakdown of what I did:
- Identified the Problem: Hating [mundane task].
- Googled My Way to Solutions: Python + Automation.
- Installed Necessary Libraries: After much struggle.
- Frankenstein-ed Some Code: From Stack Overflow, of course.
- Debugged Like a Maniac: Until it (sort of) worked.
- Celebrated Like I Won the Lottery: Maybe a slight exaggeration.
The next morning, I woke up with a pounding headache and a vague memory of coding something. I checked my laptop, and there it was: a messy, poorly-written, but functional script. And you know what? It still worked! I ran it again, and it saved me like, 15 minutes of [mundane task].
So, was it worth it? Absolutely. Not only did I automate something I hate, but I also proved to myself that even a tipsy idiot can accomplish something with a little bit of Googling and a lot of perseverance. Plus, it’s a great story to tell at parties. “Yeah, I automated [mundane task] while drunk. What have you done lately?”
Now, I gotta clean up this code and maybe add some comments before I forget what the hell I even did. But hey, that’s a problem for future me. Right now, I’m just gonna bask in the glory of my slightly inebriated accomplishment.