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In the series “this wouldn’t have been possible six months ago” I was on my way to a track and field meeting this morning. I’m a coach so I need to monitor results for several athletes. …

30/5/26, 5:43 pm0 reposts0 likes

Stephen Gruppetta

@stephengruppetta.com

30 May

Results are published on a website. All coaches, athletes, and parents are constantly refreshing the webpage during meets waiting for the published results for each event throughout the day. It’s annoying. …

Stephen Gruppetta

@stephengruppetta.com

30 May

Driving towards the venue, I asked my son, who was travelling with me, to type what I dictate to my agent. By the time I got to the track, I had a cron running every five minutes… …

Stephen Gruppetta

@stephengruppetta.com

30 May

…scraping the results page, finding new results, finding our club’s athletes, and sending a message to a Telegram channel with their result. I made some adjustments (via my agent, of course) while I was at the meet. All using my phone to talk to my agent. …

Stephen Gruppetta

@stephengruppetta.com

30 May

No more refreshing webpages all day. We also get a nice summary at the end of the day when the meet is over. Now my agent is tidying up to make it easy to launch at the start of every meet.