Show HN: I automated half of my typing

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Post by eschluntz » Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 6:40 PM UTC

I've been using this for about a year now - I parsed 6 months of my messages on slack and found the most common phrases I use and generated keyboard shortcuts for them.

Show HN: I automated half of my typing
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Post by eschluntz » Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 6:43 PM UTC

I also wrote a blog post with video about the project: https://erikschluntz.com/software/2023/08/26/compressing-my-...

This has been one of the rare side projects that has actually saved me more time than I've put in :)

Re: Show HN: I automated half of my typing

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Post by eschluntz » Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 6:43 PM UTC

Also the most surprising part of doing this was seeing that abbreviating super short words like "the" -> "t" actually saves far more characters overall than abbreviating long words and phrases that are less common, like "what do you think" -> "wdytk".

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Post by dapookster » Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 6:50 PM UTC

Very cool!

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Post by ReD_CoDE » Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 7:46 PM UTC

Cool, thinking how can use it in programming, or other conditions?

Re: Show HN: I automated half of my typing

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Post by mtlynch » Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 7:57 PM UTC

This is neat!

I've thought about doing something similar with my shell history to help me figure out which shell aliases I should create.

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Post by KomoD » Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 8:06 PM UTC

mtlynch wrote: post #6

This is neat! I've thought about doing something similar with my shell history to help me figure out which shell aliases I should create.

> I've thought about doing something similar with my shell history to help me figure out which shell aliases I should create.

Same here, I end up doing `h | grep "(something about the command)` a lot to get commands with specific options, etc. and think "damn i should really make an alias for this" every single time, but never get around to it

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Post by 1729__iykyk » Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 8:07 PM UTC

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Post by KomoD » Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 8:08 PM UTC

Pretty cool and very useful, as long as you can remember all of the shortcuts (I guess it comes with time!)

It kind of reminds me of stenography in a way