[TriEmbed] Living in a tech world, in California

[Alan Wiggs PE]

To all my tech geek friends,

 I got this from a lawyer buddy, his nephew is in a tech area.

A few years ago I looked at a Adafruit feather Huzzah project to do something like this.


> From: J
> Subject: From my non-engineer nephew in Palo Alto
> Date: April 12, 2020 at 4:26:25 PM EDT
> To: 
> 
> Subject: He who cannot code, cannot eat
> 
> 
> It's become apparent that it's virtually impossible to get a curbside pickup time slot at any of the local grocery stores.  When one becomes available, it is literally snapped up within seconds.  So quickly, in fact, that I came to the conclusion people must be using automation.  This is just one more reason why it often sucks to live in the same vicinity as 100,000 other software engineers.
> 
> So, I joined the arms race, analyzed the underlying API of the store's website, and wrote a program that checks for available time slots every 15 seconds, and if any are found, reserves the first one instantly.  Then it turns on a light in the bedroom to alert me that I have a reservation, and after that I have one hour to complete the checkout.  I was walking around in circles in the yard last night when I saw the light come on, so I came in and discovered I have a time on Wednesday evening.
> 
> Pity those poor suckers in Silicon Valley who don't know how to code.  Kind of darkly funny that it has finally come to this: if you can't program a computer, you can take your chances with COVID, or starve, I guess.

Be safe,

Alan Wiggs
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