Life Automation With JavaScript

Luke Bonaccorsi - @LukeB_UK

I’m lazy

I love automation because I can do less

In everyday life we’re surrounded by automation and probably don’t realise

Traffic lights

Automatic doors

Automatic hand driers

Thermostats

Motion sensing lights

Cash machines

And that’s just the stuff I noticed and paid attention to today...

As developers and engineers, we use automation to make our jobs easier

Build tooling

Tests

Infrastructure configuration

As interesting as that stuff can be, I’m not here to talk about that

Over the past couple of years there’s been a “bot uprising”

They're quickly becoming a bigger and bigger part of our lives

Release token

Personalised news

Ordering food

And then there's Github’s Hubot

Deploying code

Provisioning and managing hardware

Visitor wrangling

Even controlling the music!

As consumers, we're embracing automation in our homes

Heating

Lighting

Access control

And it’s only just beginning

How I ended up automating my curtains and shouting at my laptop

I only wanted to download movies...

...I automated my lamps instead

Then I started to add the important stuff

I had all these wild ideas of stuff I could do

...But then decided to rewrite everything instead

So yeah, my curtains...

And then I got bored over christmas

That’s the story so far

But what about the future?

I am genuinely terrified of the prospect of home ownership

At the start of this talk I said I was lazy.�Let me correct that

I’m the stupid kind of lazy where I’ll spend hundreds of hours making things so I don’t have to do simple tasks

Questions?

Twitter: @LukeB_UK

Github: github.com/lukeb-uk

Woodhouse: github.com/woodhouse

​