CHchirau·Dec 20, 2017Submission
Hacker scripts for a number of tasks (Based on a true story)
1 points · Open discussionNARKOZ
hacker-scripts
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hacker-scripts
Based on a true story
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11 sourcesHacker Scripts – Based on a true story
2 points · Open discussionA programmer wrote scripts to secretly automate a lot of his job
3 points · Open discussionThis belongs here: https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts
In Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?I can't leave without bringing that classic repo (https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts) it's delightful and it's a cool example of work/life automation.
In Ask HN: What work-related task have you automated?- Downloading a song of youtube, adding meta data via beets and moving to my music lib
- 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
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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.
https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts
You may be talking about https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/249-now-thats-what-i-call-a-...
There's a repository with implementations of those scripts in multiple languages at https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts
In Ask HN: How do you use code to solve everyday (non business) challenges?Hacker Scripts – Based on a true story
2 points · Open discussionReminds of me this post/story:
https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts
In Ask HN: What manual processes would you automate in your company?