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Alexa Skill for evenly splitting chores

We have two kids, and both of them want to feed the dog in the evening. We used do it where one fed in the morning and one fed in the evening, but that had "issues". Let's just say mornings can be hectic. I wanted…

By Jonathan Poland

Custom recurring invoices with Google Scripts

All I wanted to do was send a monthly invoice that covered the whole of the previous month. It was important that it call out the full dates the invoice covered. For example, on May 1, I wanted to generate an invoice that said "Services…

By Jonathan Poland

Vacation Rental Automation with Google Scripts

In my previous posts I covered how to use Zapier to automate a large part of a vacation rental. This post details how I replaced Zapier with Google Scripts. Zapier worked well enough, but there were lingering annoyances that I kept running into: I was…

By Jonathan Poland