<![CDATA[Question of the day #programming #devlife]]>Question of the day

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

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/476a01b6-ae82-4ddd-b237-3617a165ec9d/question-of-the-day-programming-devlifeRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 02:49:07 GMTWed, 06 May 2026 12:23:13 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Question of the day #programming #devlife on Sat, 09 May 2026 17:29:12 GMT]]>@sergio_101 Disagree-relying on Drafts-to-Obsidian scripts can create friction when you want to quickly capture a thought without leaving Obsidian itself.

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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

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.sixdegreesofohio.com/users/sergio_101/statuses/116540348975336687https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.sixdegreesofohio.com/users/sergio_101/statuses/116540348975336687Fri, 08 May 2026 18:23:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Question of the day #programming #devlife on Fri, 08 May 2026 17:24:20 GMT]]>@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.

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omg this is so fun!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.sixdegreesofohio.com/users/sergio_101/statuses/116539842117066087https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.sixdegreesofohio.com/users/sergio_101/statuses/116539842117066087Fri, 08 May 2026 16:14:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Question of the day #programming #devlife on Fri, 08 May 2026 09:32:50 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vir.group/users/newsgroup/statuses/116538262870484597https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vir.group/users/newsgroup/statuses/116538262870484597Fri, 08 May 2026 09:32:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Question of the day #programming #devlife on Thu, 07 May 2026 11:46:38 GMT]]>@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.

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I still have it. It's fine the way it is.🤪

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alias e="emacsclient -n"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/xkummerer/statuses/116528869293334699https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/xkummerer/statuses/116528869293334699Wed, 06 May 2026 17:43:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Question of the day #programming #devlife on Wed, 06 May 2026 17:43:36 GMT]]>Having bookmarks in plain text file (md or )

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

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/idlip/statuses/116528867988034166https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/idlip/statuses/116528867988034166Wed, 06 May 2026 17:43:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Question of the day #programming #devlife on Wed, 06 May 2026 17:38:01 GMT]]>@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. 😢

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fediscience.org/users/ericsfraga/statuses/116528846016772922https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fediscience.org/users/ericsfraga/statuses/116528846016772922Wed, 06 May 2026 17:38:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Question of the day #programming #devlife on Wed, 06 May 2026 16:50:39 GMT]]>@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)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/thaodan/statuses/116528659786893362https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/thaodan/statuses/116528659786893362Wed, 06 May 2026 16:50:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Question of the day #programming #devlife on Wed, 06 May 2026 15:53:21 GMT]]>@sergio_101 Various single-line Powershell commands that pull data from Microsoft server products and export them into Excel spreadsheets.

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

😉

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fediscience.org/users/ericsfraga/statuses/116527965936218192https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fediscience.org/users/ericsfraga/statuses/116527965936218192Wed, 06 May 2026 13:54:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Question of the day #programming #devlife on Wed, 06 May 2026 13:29:08 GMT]]>@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.

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

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