Very nice. A 21st century take on pizzatool.
https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-...
FWIW, there's a pizza restaurant, Waypoint Pizza in Tiburon, which if you ask nicely will deliver on the water in the San Francisco Bay. This comes in handy during weird less serious sailing races like Three Bridge Fiasco.
Dean Karnazes did this in an ultra running race minus the tech. He rolled the pizza up like a burrito and ran with it:
https://gffmag.com/the-raw-endurance-of-ultramarathon-man-de...
If it is a react website that would imply it has an api you could just use directly. Might still need to login to get a token but that's a lot more robust
i cannot tell you how much i enjoyed this article. it was very funny. it had so many great elements. a fun tech problem, pizza, getting me to look up what “s-tier” meant, a dash of humor (as if the premise wasn’t already hilarious), the mea culpa at the end and the ideas as to what the bug was (his theory sounds plausible to me, but idk).
This is pretty neat not gonna lie. I wonder now if something similar can be done with Deliveroo or similar - on day X if certain conditions are met (eg: working late), have preprogrammed order Y submitted when approximately Z distance from house.
I have fond memories of growing up with Casey's pizza. I pick it up any time I am back in the Midwest.
I can't place it, but it has its own distinct charm.
Oof, and it didn't work. That's pretty rough to find out at mile 200!
Software, cycling and pizza. Some of my favorite things in life. This project and write-up was thoroughly enjoyed, and has inspired some of my own similar ideas now! Cheers
I think I would either:
- just call up using hands free - have a friend do the call, and message them to trigger it
Also he keeps referring to "delivery" but it's actually pickup, no?
Great stuff! Thanks for the Playwright link and detailed Lambda blog posts, I had a similar project I was working on trying to convert text into animated (typed) code videos (on visual studio code) - trying to get anything non trivial in lambda to run is indeed an interesting endeavour to say the least!
>My going theory is that the Lambda had terminated processing as soon as the final form.submit()
Kinda odd behaviour
If they take phone orders you could just play a pre recorded messages and call them using twillo. I've done this in the past to call many stores and check inventory of an item
that was a fun read! hope you get your fresh pizza next race
Ok let’s fix one thing: Casey’s pizza is not great, despite the cult following :)
Source: Missouri resident
LOL this guy is amazing and does amazing things. I would never think of something like that.
There's a great way to get motivated for the last leg of the race!
But… Hawaiian pizza?
The lengths people these days will go to in order to not make a phone call...
> In other words, after having wasted an ungodly amount of money trying to make pizza in the most complicated way possible, Zume decided that the best course of action was to just try selling boxes instead
Started off as a Futurama episode, finished off as a Simpsons episode.
Sorry for being kinda off-topic, but what's going on with these small(-ish) businesses configuring their websites to block users randomly through Cloudflare nowadays? I've seen this happened at least 5 times this week clicking random links, they are all local business websites.
I'm talking about https://www.caseys.com in this article, which gives me
Access denied
Error code 1020
You do not have access to www.caseys.com.
The site owner may have set restrictions that prevent you from accessing the site."
Colin will make you a pizza while he's delivering it: https://youtu.be/YjyJRTM0knE?si=fes2lbRntUlciPSH