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- Downloading a song of youtube, adding meta data via beets and moving to my music lib

- Adding tasks to my todolist client from every app I use(including my bookmarking service when I bookmark with specific tags)

- Changing terminal colours based on time of the day(lower brightness in the evenings and hence dark colours, too much sunlight in the mornings and hence solarized themes)

- Automatically message people who message me based on priority(parents immediately/girlfriend a longer buffer).

- Filters on said messages incase a few require my intervention

- Phone alerts on specific emails

- Waiting for a server which you were working with to recover from a 503(happens often in dev environments) and you are tired of checking every 5 seconds: Ping scripts which message my phone while I go play in the rec area.

- Disable my phone charging when it nears 95% (I'm an android dev and hate that my phone is always charging)

- Scraping websites for specific information and making my laptop ping when the scenario succeeds(I dont like continuously refreshing a page)

I dont think several of these count as automation as opposed to just some script work. But I prefer reducing keystrokes as much as possible for things which are fixed.

Relevant to this discussion:Excerpt from the github page

>OK, so, our build engineer has left for another company. The dude was literally living inside the terminal. You know, that type of a guy who loves Vim, creates diagrams in Dot and writes wiki-posts in Markdown... If something - anything - requires more than 90 seconds of his time, he writes a script to automate that.

https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts

parent shade23 9 years ago

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