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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. …

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. …

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… …

…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. …