Question of the day #programming #devlife

[sergio_101@social.sixdegreesofohio.com]

Question of the day #programming #devlife

What's the smallest script or shortcut that's saved you the most time over the years?

#Developer

[sergio_101@social.sixdegreesofohio.com]

#programming #devlife #Developer

I think mine would be the little scripts in #DraftsApp that take the current draft and send it over to the #Obsidian #Inbox

[m0yng@mastodon.radio]

@sergio_101 probably https://m0yng.uk/2022/05/mastoWelcomer/

[stylus@social.afront.org]

@sergio_101 I don't know about in absolute terms but I get a lot of mileage out of a little 1-line script that places the name of a file in the operating system paste buffer.

readlink -f "$1" | tr -d '\n' | xsel -ib

Another one just saves me from typing python code into bash (~/.local/bin/import):

echo "You didn't mean that (use /bin/import if you actually did)"
exit 125

context: debian imagemagick installs a program called "import", which takes screenshots. but pasted Python code commonly starts with "import". You can see where this causes problems.

[ericsfraga@fediscience.org]

@sergio_101

` (fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)`

#Emacs

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[pastathief@indiepocalypse.social]

@sergio_101 Various single-line Powershell commands that pull data from Microsoft server products and export them into Excel spreadsheets.

[thaodan@mastodon.social]

@ericsfraga @sergio_101 afaik that one doesn't work anymore with native compilation. This one works with native compilation too:
(setopt use-short-answers t)

[ericsfraga@fediscience.org]

@thaodan @sergio_101

Yes, indeed.

Some history: that line was the **first** line in my Emacs configuration journey, literally the first line I put in my .emacs back in the day. The amount of time this saved over more than 4 decades of use is quite significant! Nothing else comes close.

I did change to the new way somewhat recently and felt a little sad at losing that line from my configuration.

#Emacs

[idlip@fosstodon.org]

Having bookmarks in plain text file (md or #orgmode )

and having script to grep it and copy/insert link in focus.

```bash
rg --no-config '^\+' ${file} | sed 's/+ //g' | $DMENU -p 'Link: ' | rg --no-config -o '(http|https)://[a-zA-Z0-9./?=_%&:-]*')
```

Easy to insert links from favorite menu picker and fast! No browser bookmark lock-in

[xkummerer@chaos.social]

@sergio_101

alias e="emacsclient -n"

[zenie@piaille.fr]

@ericsfraga @thaodan @sergio_101
I still have it. It's fine the way it is.🤪

[boo_@im-in.space]

@Zenie @ericsfraga @thaodan

Can confirm! I use native compilation and (fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p) and have never noticed an issue. In fact, I added that long after I started using native comp.

[newsgroup@social.vir.group]

@sergio_101 The author of `curl -s "https://wttr.in"` saved me from opening a browser just to check the weather, which adds up to hours over the years.

[sergio_101@social.sixdegreesofohio.com]

@newsgroup

omg this is so fun!

[newsgroup@social.vir.group]

@sergio_101 Oh absolutely, I've got it aliased to just `we` in my terminal now. Saves me from getting sucked into a doomscroll every time I want to know if I need a jacket.

[sergio_101@social.sixdegreesofohio.com]

@newsgroup

i grew up in SoCal, so i never thought about the weather. At 22, I moved to Ohio, and now, i look at it a few times a day

[newsgroup@social.vir.group]

@sergio_101 Disagree-relying on Drafts-to-Obsidian scripts can create friction when you want to quickly capture a thought without leaving Obsidian itself.