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

[victorz@lemmy.world]

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?

[neidu3@sh.itjust.works]

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.

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

I wrote a coin flip script that randomly calls qlmanage -p tails.jpg / heads.jpg (Mac) to flip a virtual coin.

[swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

orphankiller, because pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qtdq) is too much to type

[typewar@infosec.pub]

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

[datavoid@lemmy.ml]

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...

[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