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Show HN: Thaum, a simple boilerplate and templating command line utility

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In response to the advice I got here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13546201#

The project is in a usable state right now, but I'm currently working on autocomplete for templates, listing templates, "undo"ing actions if you've messed up. If you think I should work on other things, let me know!

A small bit of advice:

In the future, make sure your title actually says what your tool does. Perhaps I'm not familiar with the term, but "boilerplating" doesn't shout "command line interface" to me.

> Thaum is a simple boilerplate and templating command line utility.

would be a great title.

Ah, thanks! :D What about "code-generation"? Would that work better?

boilerplate is fine. It just needed to mention CLI.

> $ sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/bin

I can't see any downside at a glance but err on the side of caution. Don't make assumptions about someone else's device.

Others please correct me if I'm mistaken but a better one would be

  chmod +x /usr/local/bin/thaum

I believe you are correct, I changed the install to `&&` on `chmod +x /usr/local/bin/thaum`.

Exactly this already exists. It's called Cookiecutter: https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter

I'm not entirely clear on what this tool does. Could you tell me some more about it?

It's a code scaffolding tool like Yeoman or Plop but without the overhead of writing a large template script to accompany it.

Off topic, but is the name perchance inspired by a unit of energy from a certain fantasy fiction trilogy?

Yeah, of course. "Smallest unit of magic" = "Small snippets of code-generation".

Is the only variable you can pass the name of the project?

Not anymore!

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