Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Having trouble remembering the birthdays of your friends and family? Why not automate the process?

In this video, we'll put all the birthdays in a CSV ordered by date, and we'll build a lambda function that checks that sheet daily and sends a personalized text message to those with a birthday.

Maybe that seems heartless to automate birthday greetings? If so, have it send yourself a text daily with a list of birthdays and phone numbers and send them out personally yourselves. The main point here is that you remember them.

This is a great way to become more familiar not only with automation in general but with lambda functions and one of my favorite languages, Go.

Code - gist.github.com/rodgtr1/a8362e853daebf682d3303b053a5a343

As mentioned in the video you will need to sign up for:
An AWS account (with a bunch of freebies for 12 months): aws.amazon.com/free
A Twilio Account ($10 with this link): bit.ly/2TAr6DC

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