On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 22:59:28 -0400
Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> For me, it's all about POSIX.
I immediately understood the UNIX philosophy when I first heard
of it; tiny, single-purpose programs which can be stitched together.
I agreed with it, but found all the tools incredibly complex mainly
because of shit documentation and poor examples. I don't (technically)
program, so I started writing all that as I went along.
I've grown tired over the years though, preferring the lazy user side of
things. I never really did proper programming, but it's very
fulfilling to script my own stuff.
For example, I don't need a GUI screenshot program when I can summon
this with an Openbox hotkey:
\sh -c "\
\urxvt -title 'screenshot' -geometry 120x50+0+0 -e \\
\dialog --no-shadow --msgbox 'screenshot' 0 0 ;\\
\scrot --select 'screenshot--%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S--$wx$h.png' --exec '\mv
$f /l/live/__ ; \gpicview /l/live/__/$f' \\
"
Oh, and since I'm on that and we have some Openbox people.. guess what
this does:
\sh -c "\
\geany \\
$( \realpath ~/.themes/minimal-spiralofhope/openbox-3/themerc ) \\
$( \realpath ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml ) ;\
\waitpid $! ;\
\openbox --reconfigure ;\
\waitpid $! ;\
\xrefresh \\
"
The problem for me is how to share things so they're discoverable. I've
got a GitHub repository, but.. that's not exactly connected to search
engines (maybe one day to Bing?), especially since I don't really
describe every little script in a way that users could type in keywords
to discover.
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