What are some "toy programs" you've created?
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I haven’t written many utility scripts/programs in a while but my apartment is fully automated with temperature, humidity, light, presence and door sensors.
We like to keep our screen doors open when the weather is nice so I have things like fans, heating, air conditioning automated but set to turn off when a door(s) is open.
The outdoor lights are also automated but I have them turn green/blue when it’s foggy or rainy and they turn red when there is aircraft above.
Before smartphones started using random MAC addresses on WiFi I also automated some things depending which guests we had over, but I haven’t done that in a long time.
What kind of hardware do you need for all this crazy sci-fi shit? 🤯
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I mostly write utilities/tools like this. Some examples from my ~/bin/ folder:
- A script that turns caps lock off and numlock on, and remaps caps lock to compose. I have this run by cron every minute.
- A script that saves the current buffer of my continously running screen recorder to a file. Bound to the Lenovo coilot key.
- A half-finished script that downloads and installs the latest version of discord, as Discord and ants me to manually upgrade it every time I start it.
Edit: OH, and on my work laptop I have a script named Fnkeyfuckery. The keyboard layout is annoying in that I have to choose between Function keys or have Home+End.
I want my function keys AND I want home+end. Luckily I don't need F11 and F12 very often, so I'swapped around those two with their alternate function. That way I have F1 through F10, Home and End by default, and if I hold Fn I can have F11 and F12 too. It runs on startup.script that saves the current buffer of my continously running screen recorder to a file
Curious to know why you are continuously recording your screen. Must fill up your hard drives really quickly?
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script that saves the current buffer of my continously running screen recorder to a file
Curious to know why you are continuously recording your screen. Must fill up your hard drives really quickly?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Why: I case I want to show something unplanned to someone. Freak accident in a game, for example.
Disk: It's only keeping the latest 30 minutes in a buffer. Saving basically means copying that buffer to a different file. -
Little programs or scripts or automations you've created ad-hoc to solve a particular single use case
I have lots of shortcuts i make on my phone and I have one i love that detects when bluetooth accidentally or purposefully disconnects from my speaker and reconnects it and fixes a playback glitch so its back to playing properly
I wrote a coin flip script that randomly calls
qlmanage -p tails.jpg / heads.jpg(Mac) to flip a virtual coin. -
Little programs or scripts or automations you've created ad-hoc to solve a particular single use case
I have lots of shortcuts i make on my phone and I have one i love that detects when bluetooth accidentally or purposefully disconnects from my speaker and reconnects it and fixes a playback glitch so its back to playing properly
orphankiller, becausepacman -Rns $(pacman -Qtdq)is too much to type -
Little programs or scripts or automations you've created ad-hoc to solve a particular single use case
I have lots of shortcuts i make on my phone and I have one i love that detects when bluetooth accidentally or purposefully disconnects from my speaker and reconnects it and fixes a playback glitch so its back to playing properly
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I made a website to practice reading my wristwatch: https://aadniz.github.io/niwa-practicer/ (works best on PC, and I'm well aware of many issues)
Since depth is important to recognizing the odd and even, quickly mapping them to the number, I made it "fake" 3D, tracing each layer in krita.
There was no deep motivation for this other than refreshing myself a bit of React from University. With my neverending list of project plans, I felt like this one was a good choice for that. Here is the source code: https://github.com/Aadniz/niwa-practicer
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Little programs or scripts or automations you've created ad-hoc to solve a particular single use case
I have lots of shortcuts i make on my phone and I have one i love that detects when bluetooth accidentally or purposefully disconnects from my speaker and reconnects it and fixes a playback glitch so its back to playing properly
My most used one is a two letter terminal alias (zz for zigzag) that copies all the track information from a specified playlist, or from my “download" playlist if none is provided. It can also read from CSV and text files in order to remove all special characters and repeated words from each name. Then it outputs a formatted version to my clipboard, which I then paste into another program's config file. Then I wait...
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Why: I case I want to show something unplanned to someone. Freak accident in a game, for example.
Disk: It's only keeping the latest 30 minutes in a buffer. Saving basically means copying that buffer to a different file.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!
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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!
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I based my setup around
Replay MagicReplaySorcery. I'm sure there are other packages too. -
Little programs or scripts or automations you've created ad-hoc to solve a particular single use case
I have lots of shortcuts i make on my phone and I have one i love that detects when bluetooth accidentally or purposefully disconnects from my speaker and reconnects it and fixes a playback glitch so its back to playing properly
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
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Hard to say, it's been years since I've done a full inventory and I have books signed by people who have since passed away.
Working on a current inventory now.
Wow this is really cool. Thanks for sharing!
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I based my setup around
Replay MagicReplaySorcery. I'm sure there are other packages too.Replay Magic
Hmm. Trying to find that. Do you mean ReplaySourcery?
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Little programs or scripts or automations you've created ad-hoc to solve a particular single use case
I have lots of shortcuts i make on my phone and I have one i love that detects when bluetooth accidentally or purposefully disconnects from my speaker and reconnects it and fixes a playback glitch so its back to playing properly
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.
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Little programs or scripts or automations you've created ad-hoc to solve a particular single use case
I have lots of shortcuts i make on my phone and I have one i love that detects when bluetooth accidentally or purposefully disconnects from my speaker and reconnects it and fixes a playback glitch so its back to playing properly
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.
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Replay Magic
Hmm. Trying to find that. Do you mean ReplaySourcery?
Derp, yes
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Little programs or scripts or automations you've created ad-hoc to solve a particular single use case
I have lots of shortcuts i make on my phone and I have one i love that detects when bluetooth accidentally or purposefully disconnects from my speaker and reconnects it and fixes a playback glitch so its back to playing properly
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.
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Little programs or scripts or automations you've created ad-hoc to solve a particular single use case
I have lots of shortcuts i make on my phone and I have one i love that detects when bluetooth accidentally or purposefully disconnects from my speaker and reconnects it and fixes a playback glitch so its back to playing properly
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
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Little programs or scripts or automations you've created ad-hoc to solve a particular single use case
I have lots of shortcuts i make on my phone and I have one i love that detects when bluetooth accidentally or purposefully disconnects from my speaker and reconnects it and fixes a playback glitch so its back to playing properly
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.
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Little programs or scripts or automations you've created ad-hoc to solve a particular single use case
I have lots of shortcuts i make on my phone and I have one i love that detects when bluetooth accidentally or purposefully disconnects from my speaker and reconnects it and fixes a playback glitch so its back to playing properly
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.
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i wrote a simple program to wiggle my mouse
you can guess why
it was a rip off from a coworker’s program
I did that too with a basic powershell loop hitting F15 (non existent keyboard key that's not mapped to anything)
