Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)

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  1. just

    🤖 Just a command runner

    I’ve just switched to using just https://github.com/casey/just for my makefiles that were really just a collection of small snippets and it’s worked wonderfully

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

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  3. dotfiles

    is it worth the time? (by eh8)

    And often it doesn’t need to be optimal. If the functional process takes 5 minutes and you do it once a month then you can’t spend more than 5 hours optimizing it before you’re going backwards.

    https://xkcd.com/1205/

  4. xc

    Markdown defined task runner.

    I found this a few years ago and was quite inspired by it. I then more recently found https://xcfile.dev/ which is a great way to implement these sort of scripts directly in the project's README.

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