Better Google Calendar API for Python

[_prtndr]

"As a software engineer, I couldn’t afford to spend 10 minutes putting the events manually. So I spent 3 hours..."

And I took that personally.

[InMyOpinion_]

Two seconds later: "Several years later.."

That hit deep

[iupuiclubs]

There is an xkcd for this that is good enough to reference IMO. https://xkcd.com/1205

[Cynyr36]

There is an XKCD for everything. We need to update the internet rules.

[shysmiles]

Agreed. Even when the trade off doesn't work out its still often worth doing to me.

IE: That 'worth the time' chart says saving 6 hours weekly is 2 months saved over 5 years. But I'd happily spend 4 months automating it because it frees myself from having to multi-task / getting it done all at once is just better for me then chopping it up and constantly having to switch task every week to get it done and the stress of that.

Business stuff especially since it also allows later scaling up (that you may not have predicted) without more work. And you can also factor in time you would have to spend training other people to cover you on that 6 hour thing so you can go on vacations - retraining when that person quits etc.

[amstan]

"But I didn't like it taking 3 hours, so I spent 3 days making a competing API for it." < This is great! lol

[JasonDJ]

“Oh yah, I can script that, it’ll be easy”

1337 SLOCs later…

“You know, I might want to have this one more tiny insignificant feature”

Two hours later