There is also a recreation of the scripts at https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts
https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts
https://www.thejournal.ie/programmer-scripts-to-do-his-job-e...
Others might call this being efficient or work smart, not hard etc. etc.
To me, it's quintessential laziness at its most glorious.
Edit: knew there was a link somewhere https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts
https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts
;) thank me later
- Adding tasks to my todolist client from every app I use(including my bookmarking service when I bookmark with specific tags)
- Changing terminal colours based on time of the day(lower brightness in the evenings and hence dark colours, too much sunlight in the mornings and hence solarized themes)
- Automatically message people who message me based on priority(parents immediately/girlfriend a longer buffer).
- Filters on said messages incase a few require my intervention
- Phone alerts on specific emails
- Waiting for a server which you were working with to recover from a 503(happens often in dev environments) and you are tired of checking every 5 seconds: Ping scripts which message my phone while I go play in the rec area.
- Disable my phone charging when it nears 95% (I'm an android dev and hate that my phone is always charging)
- Scraping websites for specific information and making my laptop ping when the scenario succeeds(I dont like continuously refreshing a page)
I dont think several of these count as automation as opposed to just some script work. But I prefer reducing keystrokes as much as possible for things which are fixed.
Relevant to this discussion:Excerpt from the github page
>OK, so, our build engineer has left for another company. The dude was literally living inside the terminal. You know, that type of a guy who loves Vim, creates diagrams in Dot and writes wiki-posts in Markdown... If something - anything - requires more than 90 seconds of his time, he writes a script to automate that.
There's a repository with implementations of those scripts in multiple languages at https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts
This is who I want to be when I grow up.