What are some "toy programs" you've created?

[victorz@lemmy.world]

Ah, cool.

Sounds kind of like the Nvidia tool for Windows.

Speaking of which, as well as your use case, I found this tool a while ago that looks and does pretty much the same thing: "GPU Screen Recorder", found on flathub via "com.dec05eba.gpu_screen_recorder".

I hope it comes to use for anyone!

[neidu3@sh.itjust.works]

I based my setup around Replay Magic ReplaySorcery. I'm sure there are other packages too.

[lightnsfw@reddthat.com]

I wrote a powershell script to rename and reorder about 1000 comic books based off a reading order I put in a csv file once

[mintiefresh@lemmy.ca]

Wow this is really cool. Thanks for sharing!

[victorz@lemmy.world]

Replay Magic

Hmm. Trying to find that. Do you mean ReplaySourcery?

[lime@feddit.nu]

me and a few friends have a dumb chatbot we've been fiddling with for 15 years. started out on irc, moved platforms multiple times, and i'm currently porting it to matrix. it can do poetry, markov chains, tell you when the weekend starts, pull youtube videos, create email aliases, etc.

[flames5123@sh.itjust.works]

I have a python script that I run on my phone to scrape a few websites and return the current food trucks at my few local breweries with the times they’re there. It makes our once/twice a week dinner selections so much easier than having to manually visit 4 websites. Some sites have been updated, and I haven’t updated my script and I need to.

[neidu3@sh.itjust.works]

Derp, yes

[i_ben_fine@midwest.social]

A few years back, I made a python program that searched free-for-commercial-use Google Images and auto-adjusted them to fit Amazon Merch shirts and uploaded them to Amazon. This was, of course, a violation of their terms of service.

[callyral@pawb.social]

a backup script i keep on my flash drive. when i wanna backup my files i just run the script and it copies the folders i want to back up

[blackstampede@sh.itjust.works]

I recently wrote a little library that adds some neat little features to enums in Rust. It's tiny, does one thing, and does it pretty well, I think.

[hakunahafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I use Redshift to change the color temp on my monitors.

I have cron jobs at 1930 to change to night mode, and 0600 to revert back to day mode.

I'm very certain the temp change can be scheduled within Redshift itself, but I'd have to leave the terminal open, figure out the documentation, arguments, etc. Creating the cron jobs was easier for me.

[landless2029@lemmy.world]

I did that too with a basic powershell loop hitting F15 (non existent keyboard key that's not mapped to anything)

[thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world]

I wrote a knights and knaves puzzle generator. I enjoyed making the program more than actually solving the puzzles though

[thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world]

Once I wrote a PowerShell script to change all the public affairs officers' job titles to pubic affairs officers on our exchange server. I never ran it, but I could have.

[captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works]

One or two versions before they included it by default, I wrote a Nemo Action to launch the monitor settings dialog in the right click menu when you right click the desktop.

[victorz@lemmy.world]

I read through the readme and the config file example. Looks pretty neat! I might take a look at that to see if I can use it too.

The last release talks about a future 1.0 release, and "experimental" stuff. But that was 4 years ago.

Is it inactive? 🫤

[agelord@lemmy.world]

You can run scripts without terminal emulator windows.

[neidu3@sh.itjust.works]

I think so, but it works well enough

[chunes@lemmy.world]

I write AHK scripts to make it possible to play certain games even though I can barely use my limbs. Often this means condensing a bunch of pointless inputs into one. Other times it means hacking controller support into a game so that I can use my preferred input devices.

Even though I fucking hate AHK as a general language, it is easily the best language for such tasks.