Humans and computers have an interesting symbiotic relationship. Computers excel at tasks that require processing or recalling lots of information, especially things that are repeated frequently with only small changes. Humans are good at tasks that have poorly defined or constantly changing requirements, or that require empathy.

We as developers get the best of both worlds. Programmers and machinists are the only two professions that can improve their own tools to better fit their constantly changing workflow.

In this talk, you will learn exactly what you can do, regardless of your programming experience, to automate the boring stuff. We'll cover a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
- Managing your outlook effectively with filters and favorites
- Creating a keyboard driven workflow using Alfred for mac or Executor for windows
- Using a clipboard manager and OS wide keyboard snippets to avoid typing things twice
- Basic shell customization to make the terminal less scary, like a better prompt, better auto-completions, and shell aliases
- Writing simple scripts that interact with the GitHub/JIRA APIs
- Writing a dead simple web front-end for those scripts to make them useful for people whose title is not "engineer"

Target audience: Anyone who does anything repetitive daily. Developers or others with experience writing code will get more out of this talk, but it should be useful for everyone.