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Professional Slacker: Programmer Writes Scripts That Auto Text His Wife and Brew Coffee

As we’ve already told you, coding is a very useful skill for your career.

It’s also fun as hell when you can code for recreational purposes, like this anonymous programmer who wrote scripts to pretty much automate everything in his life that required more than 90 seconds of effort.

Former colleagues of the programmer published his archive of scripts on GitHub after he left for another company, though definitely not in spite. They were truly amazed by this man’s lazy genius.

One code, smack-my-b*tch-up.sh, sent a “late at work” text to his wife anytime there was activity with his login on the company’s computer servers after 9pm. It would also automatically generate a reason, from ‘working hard‘ to ‘someone fucked the system again‘.

He also programmed the coffee machine, which his colleagues didn’t even know was connected to the network and could be hacked, to start brewing a latte and wait 24 seconds before pouring it into the cup – the exact time it takes for him to walk from his desk to the machine.

Other notable actions include a “no worries mate, be careful next time” auto-reply when emails with the words ‘help’, ‘sorry’ and ‘trouble’ from a guy named Kumar are found and a sick/not feeling well text that’s deployed when there are no interactive sessions on the server at 8:45am.

Just an excellent use of ones and zeroes all around.

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