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  2. Everything should have an API: adventures in trying to automate stuff

    Inspired by Robb Knight I want to build my own /now page. As a teen I used to use PHPCurrently on my personal website to list what I was listening to, thinking, feeling, even what my MSN display picture was. Here's an objectively terrible screenshot from peak Evanescence phase, circa 2004.

    A screenshot from an old website. It's a list of statistics about what I'm doing. It says 'Currently: MSN display picture: Amy in a pink dress, with lyrics from Missing. date: 11th June. thinking: no more exams!!!! wearing: bathrobe. makeup: none. jewellery: none. hair: loose. MSN screenname: Grammar Nazi. time: 11:30. feeling: amused. eating: raisin wheats. drinking: nothing. surfing: this thread on AGF. you may need this (link) for some of it. IMing: no-one. hating: spelling, grammar and punctuation ignorance. Powered by PHPCurrently.
    I have grown up a bit since then, thankfully.

    And just as Robb did, I want to automate as much of it as I possibly could. No matter how many apps I try for tracking books, games, TV etc., I always forget to actually update them. Everything I do requires a sign-in these days, and it's all internet based, so why shouldn't I be able to automatically generate a page based on the data these companies have on me?

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