💁🏻 Automating gr2m/helpdesk, Episode I
📅 Monday, May 10th, 2021
🕐 noon Pacific Time (in your timezone)
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🏷️ Automation

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Automating gr2m/helpdesk

I've layed out the current process for this repository at https://github.com/gr2m/helpdesk/tree/f085060fb98f61a005c9e79df15fdad6466c6a1a#how-i-use-this-repository. It's mostly manual. Time to spice it up a bit with some automation!

In this show, I'll try to automate the links to upcoming and past shows in both https://github.com/gr2m/helpdesk and my profile page at https://github.com/gr2m

Outline

1. Walkthrough of how I currently manage shows in this repository
2. Figure out a way to automatically generate the content for upcoming and past shows
3. Update the README.md files in this repository and in https://github.com/gr2m/gr2m

Preparation

I don't think any preparation is needed, we'll just wing it. It will be fun 😊

Shownotes

• The work-in-progress plugin for GraphQL pagination: 🚧 Initial version octokit/plugin-paginate-graphql.js#1
• The great readme-box tool by @JasonEtco: https://github.com/JasonEtco/readme-box
• The script we created today: index.js
• The GitHub Action workflow we created today .github/workflows/update-shows-in-README.yml