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My AWS rep gave me one of their IoT buttons when those were first a thing. I wrote a couple of lambdas for it. One click would send an email to my boss telling him I was taking a sick day, double click would send him an email telling him I was running late.

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Out of curiosity, how often are you using them?

I don’t use it at all anymore. But probably used it once or twice a month back then. If I woke up late I’d double click as soon as I got out of bed, or if I was having one of those days where I just cbf going to work I’d do the single click.

It took barely any time to set up a lambda to send an email, and I was mostly doing it to entertain myself with the novelty of it. But on the few occasions when I did, pushing a button and then going back to sleep instead of getting up for work was pretty sweet.

I've never heard the shorthand cbf before but I can guess what it means :)

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