I have a few things I would like my computer to do for me regularly like send me a news digest, check for new videos from selected YouTube channels, fetch information from different sources, and send me a scheduled notifications.

There are already plenty of tools that can do these things easily. So I'm not trying to build another general-purpose automation platform.

Instead, I wanted to build something for myself, a small personal automation system where i can define the task I care about and, more importantly, understand and control what happens underneath.

That is Chronos for ya!

At its core, Chronos is a job scheduling and execution engine. I can tell it what needs to happen and when it should happen, and Chronos will be responsible for making sure the work is scheduled, executed, and tracked even when something goes wrong.

For example:

Every morning at 8 AM
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Fetch news
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Process / summarize
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Send me the digest

the automation itself is simple. The interesting part is making the system underneath it reliable.

Phase 1 focuses on building that foundation such as persistent job definition, schedules, a scheduler/ticker, a queue, workers, retries and failure recovery.

The goal isn't to build the biggest automation platform.

The goal is to build a system I will actually use and learn how it actually works by building it from the ground up.

See ya next time! Goodbye for now ;)