Welcome to Syntax. In this Monday hasty treat we're going to be talking about using our

coding powers for fun in our own little scripts, coding for your coworkers, the types of things that you can take

your abilities to simplify other people's lives or processes or whatever just because you have this

superpower of writing code. My name is Scott Tolinsky. I'm a developer from

Denver and with me as always is Wes B Hey, yeah, so we were, we have an editor now, Randy, and he is doing all the producing

and exporting of the video and editing it all together and writing all the show notes and stuff and

he's got lots of of processes right and some of those parts are like he hit little issues or things can be sped up in a certain way.

So we've been writing little scripts here and there to sort of help him out and I thought like this is kind of an interesting show because like even as like a video editor no matter how good you are at your tools you can certainly

improve either the speed at which you do things or the accuracy at which you do things when you can add scripting in process improvements into that flow. So I thought we would just kind of talk about a couple examples of things that you can do and talk about how do you actually write these things and hand them off to people who need to do them.

Yeah, and you know they can even help you out. They could be a good introduction to getting into programming in a more practical way if you're the type of person

who's just trying to break in. Maybe you're working a job right now that isn't a programming job.

Potentially, it's a cool use to get to practice your programming skills while

accomplishing tasks you need to do for work to potentially dive into some of this

stuff as a life hack to both gain experience but also speed up your your workflow so you can spend

time doing you know things you want to be doing instead of the mundane tasks of your life.

But let's talk about mundane tasks like solving bugs.

I have to solve quite a bit of bugs in my life because I create quite a bit of bugs.

I like to solve them using a tool called Century.

This podcast is presented by Century and you know what?

Century does such a good job of finding any kind of little issue you might have in the site.

It presents it in a way that you can find it, fix it,

know what's going on, and then track, make sure it doesn't happen again.

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