One of individuals I have most admired has been Walt Disney. His dream was to be a delight to children of all ages, to create magic and wonder. His imagination and his daring to explore new technology that fueled his creativity was unprecedented. I could rattle off a long list of things that Walt either [...]
Author: danielkonopacki
Coding my Personal Assistant: SUCCESS! Well, mostly.
Today was a pretty big step forward in my little project - it sent out its very first email to the hair salon! This officially marks the halfway point for the goal of this project. But it's not without a little 'technical' humor. It wasn't without an issue. A rather funny one, as well. What [...]
Coding My Personal Assistant
In my last post I introduced the personal assistant I'm writing. I wanted to detail out the first phase of the project - getting OmniFocus to sync with Google Calendar. There are a few key items involved here: Serverless Design (Google Cloud Functions in my case) OmniFocus iCal instance Google Calendar I'll start with Serverless [...]
Meet my new personal assistants, Google Cloud Platform and AWS
Using Google Cloud Platform and AWS, I am building my own digital personal assistant. You'll probably laugh at what the first task is my PA will be tackling!
James Bond Helped Me Commit to My Goals and Here’s How
So I was watching Bond, and the thought that I could look like him changed my life. Read how.