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Re: Google Workspace CLI

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Perhaps we will finally emerge from this decades-long dark age of bloated, do-everything GUI development tools being the fashionable happy path.

The AWS cli tool wants to have a talk… hard to find a more bloated mess of strung together scripts held together by tape.

I think all the SDKs and the cli tool itself are mostly code generated.

Re: Google Workspace CLI

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"This is not an officially supported Google product." Probably someone's hobby project or 20% time at best.

Does Google still have that 20% thingy?

No idea. But IIRC that specific line was associated with your own side projects that you wanted to get permission to open source and you were willing to Apache 2.0 it as opposed to asking the company to retain the copyright. They asked you to slap Apache 2.0 and add that line to README.

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Can you name a service you think works like that? Google have over a billion very non-technical users. The friction of not having this in the account page that everyone has access too probably saves both parties lots of heartbreak.

github? I just do some click here, click there, copy paste and gh cli is ready. For google I need PhD to setup any kind of API access to my own data. And it frequently blocks you, because you can setup as a test product, add test accounts (but it can't be owner account (WTF?)) etc. I gave up on using a google calendar cli project because of all that lack of normal UX. UX for google APIs looks like it was designed by…

> github

The developer platform?

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Obsidian has become almost an operating system for working with markdown. Its Live View / Edit mode is excellent (WYSIWYG) and its ability to accept pasted content and handle it appropriately is good and getting better. Its plugin/extension ecosystem is robust (and has a low barrier to entry), and now that it has a CLI I expect to see an acceleration of clever workflows and integrations. No affiliation, just a very h…

BUT the main supported sync module is cloud only they wont let you self host for free which is really shitty and lame.

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