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Very useful to launch just the programs I need in the morning from the bathroom and closing them when I'm finished.
In that way I can easily keep work and private workflow separated. I plan to release it next year, check out RemoteMeow on twitter or reddit.
I automated my desktop environment configuration using Docker containers. I'm able to go from a headless tty to perfectly tailored desktop environment in ~2.5 seconds. First time start requires a ~40 min build, byut thereafter ~2.5s to start afresh. https://github.com/sabrehagen/desktop-environment I did the same think for my production application environment. One command to go from no infrastructure to production g…
For myself, I automated creation of language flashcards. So I can just type a word/phrase in English, and then it will automatically fill in the target language translation, pronunciation, audio recording, and word-by-word breakdown to show what every word in a phrase means. Before I would have to use Anki, and switch back and forth between Anki and various dictionaries, and have to create my own audio recording. Jus…
I realise this might not be what the question has in mind, but we have a bread machine. Just buying bread might be more 'automatic', but we've been evolving the process and recipe for the last 6+ months, and honestly the bread is now better than any but the best artisan loaves available locally, and hugely cheaper. To save time, and overcome laziness, we pre-mix 'wet' and 'dry' 'kits' in batches of 6 or 10 loaves at…
The best part was the smell of freshly baked bread.
The part I didn't like was the big hole in the loaf where the bread mixing paddle thing was. Has that been solved?
I realise this might not be what the question has in mind, but we have a bread machine. Just buying bread might be more 'automatic', but we've been evolving the process and recipe for the last 6+ months, and honestly the bread is now better than any but the best artisan loaves available locally, and hugely cheaper. To save time, and overcome laziness, we pre-mix 'wet' and 'dry' 'kits' in batches of 6 or 10 loaves at…
We used to have a bread machine years ago. The best part was the smell of freshly baked bread. The part I didn't like was the big hole in the loaf where the bread mixing paddle thing was. Has that been solved?
The paddles thing hasn't been solved AFAIK, I think they'd have be lowered and raised from the lid, rather than retracting through the waterproof pan. But anyway, with a dual-paddle machine, it's not such a big deal.
I use the following in Bash. function notifyme() { MSG=${1:-'Terminal is done'} TITLE=${2:-"Done!"} osascript -e "display notification \"${MSG}\" with title \"${TITLE}\"" } I use it like: bin/start-unit-tests; notifyme
It's very old and very hacky. There are probably apps that do this so much better.
/Applications/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/MacOS/terminal-notifier -group not -title "$t" -subtitle "$st" -message "$m" -execute "$HOME/bin/gospace 1"
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to key code 18 using option down'
A cron job that runs on a server and sends me a daily digest email. It’s composed of a number of modules that each check one thing and report a message and a “severity”. The glue code then orders them and send the email. Currently it checks: Twitter follows/unfollows for me, my wife, and my Twitter bot Stock movements for the few stocks (RSUs) I have Confirmation that several daily backups (db dumps etc) were success…
I now download this url and email it to myself as an attachment:
now = datetime.datetime.now()
nyt_url='https://static01.nyt.com/images/%04d/%02d/%02d/nytfrontpage/scan.pdf'%(now.year, now.month, now.day)If a 1-liner run manually counts, feast your eyes on nearly a kilobyte of awful bash: for i in raw-* ; do cat $i | expand | egrep '[A-Z]{3} +[0-9]{4}|/2021' | sed -r -e 's!08/(..)/2021!aug\1!g' -e 's!09/(..)/2021!sep\1!g' -e 's!10/(..)/2021!oct\1!g' -e 's!12/(..)/2021!dec\1!g' -e 's!01/(..)/2021!jan\1!g' -e 's!05/(..)/2021!may\1!g' -e 's!03/(..)/2021!mar\1!g' -e 's!02/(..)/2021!feb\1!g' -e 's!06/(..)/2021!jun\1!g' -e…
I use a lot of automation these days, here's a summary: - There's only one bakery in my area that has keto bread, but infrequently. I have a daily bot that scans the bakery page on the Uber eats equivalent webpage, then alerts me when bread is available. - On my phone I get a notification in the morning. When I click it, it copies my daily journals markdown template, opens the note app. Then I paste and write. - I ha…
What do you host your projects on?
I have a script that compares the new links to the old links (last week), then I check those sites if they are real or spam. The new list is added to the disavow list.
The script makes life easier, because instead of going through all links I can only go through the new links.