Removing Repetition by Building Your Own Automation Framework
summary
A TypeScript automation framework that runs on Dino fetches on‑call users from PagerDuty via an escalation‑policy → schedule lookup and posts Slack messages (resolving emails to Slack mention tokens) through webhooks; it runs on a schedule in GitHub Actions with secrets and Deno permission flags. It also clones repos to find stale Markdown (missing/invalid/older‑than‑3‑months) and builds review lists, and creates random coffee pairings using a Fisher‑Yates shuffle. Everything runs end‑to‑end and posts notifications to Slack.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 1:08Live demo and setup overview
- 3:16Justice League automation problem
- 6:25Choosing runtime and project setup
- 10:18PageDuty terminology and types
- 15:32Environment variables and secrets
- 19:26Slack webhook integration
- 22:16Message builder pattern
- 25:07Documentation review automation
- 30:27Coffee chat pairing workflow
- 34:20Real-world use cases and benefits
- 36:28Q&A and closing remarks
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