The most useful piece of code I’ve written
4 years ago I made this Twilio SMS API reminder app and I’ve been using it almost everyday since.
It’s hard to quantify the effect this SMS API has had on my life. I have really bad short term memory so I abuse this thing. I can remind myself minutes or hours in the future. I even do like entire months (750+ hrs) as a surprise like a self check in some number of months from now how I’m doing.
Not much really to say here, just cool. I know it is not encrypted so I usually abstract things. Main reason I did this is I didn’t know how to write mobile apps at the time and it hooks into your pre-conditioned notification mindset. See a text message “ooh who is it from?”.
The Twilio API is pretty cool, one thing I did a while back was have a specific job application email response call my phone and read a message lol (Twilio XML TTS). And as you can see above, I’ve also tied in a weather check for flying so I can go out and fly on specific days where the wind comes in from a specific direction.
Oh yeah, I’ve also used it for a 2FA forwarding bridge for the automated account login/spreadsheet filler.
Anyway yeah, I’m still waiting on that north wind.
