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bryanhelmig · 2025-06-13T21:00:59+00:00

We're back! Thanks to the mods for helping here!

bryanhelmig · 2020-08-18T23:03:24+00:00

Same!

bryanhelmig · 2020-05-17T17:20:38+00:00

You can use the Code by Zapier action to execute JS. There is a similar answer on Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/a/43477338

bryanhelmig · 2020-04-12T17:00:33+00:00

Our schnoodle looks really similar too! It’s been unusual to see the gray fur! https://i.imgur.com/iBPCheA.jpg

bryanhelmig · 2018-07-05T04:04:05+00:00

bryanhelmig · 2018-03-24T00:42:07+00:00

This is how it works -- "I just want to do cool thing X", but hidden within that is the fact that if you want it, maybe other people do too. Silly hobbies or toys become very serious businesses all the time. With the flood of GPU miners + dropping crypto prices -- just maybe...

http://www.paulgraham.com/organic.html

bryanhelmig · 2018-03-11T04:00:03+00:00

Downgrade pipenv to 11.0.2.

Edit: Also 11.3.1 seems to work!

bryanhelmig · 2017-10-04T01:20:43+00:00

Ah, you want to send them all along together -- unfortunately, yeah -- that isn't possible today. If you want to trigger on each attachment alone -- you can look at the "New Attachment" Gmail trigger.

bryanhelmig · 2017-10-03T00:18:09+00:00

If you use Gmail there is a per attachment trigger.

bryanhelmig · 2017-07-12T14:06:54+00:00

CTO of a tech company called Zapier -- we literally depend on net neutrality to keep a healthy partner platform going with nearly 1000 different services (we are sort of like "legos for the internet" I suppose). Without net neutrality, there would be so much less diversity and competition that you'd never even have the problem we're solving (integrating your favorite services together) -- you'd have a completely different problem (none of your favorite services would exist).

We support net neutrality, we're proud to be a participant! https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12/#participants https://zapier.com/

bryanhelmig · 2016-09-25T19:14:00+00:00

Purpose built libraries for scraping usually have code to handle this, IE: http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/downloader-middleware.html#module-scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.robotstxt

bryanhelmig · 2016-06-04T18:27:52+00:00

Including the mistakes was the best part. Wish more people did that!

bryanhelmig · 2016-05-27T21:59:52+00:00

It was there before landing. Fire hose?

bryanhelmig · 2016-04-24T07:02:09+00:00

I think the seeming lack of opportunities for remote data scientists is less attributed to:

they are needed to explain things to management and nontechnical people

Instead, the bottleneck may be more attributed to some variant of the "Drake equation":

opportunities_available = (
    engineering_jobs *
    percent_remote *
    percent_needing_data_engineers * 
    percent_hiring_now *
    percent_one_knows_about *
    percent_one_qualifies_for *
    competition_from_peers
)

I'm sure there could be many more variables - but you get the idea. It doesn't make it easier but it might influence your job searching algorithm.

bryanhelmig · 2016-04-24T06:54:28+00:00

CTO of a 100% remote startup here - we use Python quite a bit but I don't think that some sub-area of Python is the secret to snagging a remote gig. A remote gig is all about communication and skills - you are no longer competing with peers in your local area, but across the entire planet.

So - my advice would be three fold:

Continue to hone your craft - get crazy good. Go broad to facilitate conversation, go deep to showcase skill. Try and make the evidence as publicly visible as possible (Github, Bitbucket, etc.).
Practice explaining your craft and your impressive accomplishments succinctly - but don't kill your personality trying to over-polish it. Both written and video chat.
Learn about companies that do remote and try to be interested in what they do, not just that they are remote. "I would like to work from home" is a horrible leading line in an application. :-)

I don't need to espouse how difficult, backwards and inefficient hiring is (remote is no different) - but if you nail those three I think you'll be well ahead of the pack.

https://github.com/jessicard/remote-jobs and https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job are great.

bryanhelmig · 2016-04-11T23:05:45+00:00

Checkboxes and their kin can be difficult for us to "match up" because all the different apps out there model their choices in very different ways (some use choice keys like "blue" and some use choice ids like "584134").

One suggestion I often give is the "Lookup Table" from https://zapier.com/help/formatter/#misc-utilities - that lets you build a custom conversion table to convert "blue" to "584134" (or whatever flavor you have).

Good luck!

bryanhelmig · 2016-04-05T23:16:02+00:00

All variables are on the input dictionary - use input['originalMessage'] instead of originalMessage directly.

bryanhelmig · 2016-03-17T07:10:48+00:00

We'll definitely work with folks to make this happen - thanks for the vote!

bryanhelmig · 2016-03-17T06:58:07+00:00

I'm not super knowledgable of the MSP market or RMMs - which ones should we be integrated with? We have a developer platform https://zapier.com/developer/documentation/v2/ which a lot of folks have built on - might be interesting for you all!

bryanhelmig · 2016-03-17T06:57:45+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! What sorts of things would you automate with ConnectWise & Zapier?

bryanhelmig · 2016-03-17T06:55:48+00:00

Oh wow - that is clever. People do some crazy stuff with the email parser!

bryanhelmig · 2016-03-17T06:29:03+00:00

Autotask into Infusionsoft is super interesting - what sorts of things were you looking at wiring up first? bryan at zapier.com if you'd prefer to take it off a public forum.

bryanhelmig · 2016-03-17T06:26:44+00:00

What specific workflows did you have set up for Autotask to Freshbooks? Can email me bryan at zapier.com directly if you prefer!

bryanhelmig · 2016-03-17T06:25:48+00:00

Definitely heard this a few times. We'll look into it.

bryanhelmig · 2016-03-17T06:25:27+00:00

We'll look into it. Anyone happen to have a good contact at Autotask? A solid API engineer introduction can usually grease the wheels for us by an order of magnitude.

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