Ask HN: What day to day tasks do you automate?

14 points·JunaidBhai··7 comments

I have a script called update-my-things.sh, which updates my Python’s pipsi scripts, my Python’s pew virtualenvs, my Rust toolchains, my VMs, my local software Git mirrors, etc.

All stitched together in (bad) Bash.

This seems interesting. How often do you use this script? and is there any other part that you failed or found very boring?

On a side-note; I loved sandspiel.

> How often do you use this script?

I run once in a couple of days. Didn't automate the execution of this "meta-script" because I don't want it to run whenever I am using the resources its updating.

> is there any other part that you failed or found very boring

Yes, the VM updating part. Starting each VM, waiting for them to start, updating packages via apt-get, stopping, waiting for them to stop. This was boring and done on trial and error until it just works now.

> I loved sandspiel

I am not the author, just saw on lobste.rs and reposted here because I loved it too! All credits go to this guy: https://github.com/MaxBittker

I like to rotate my desktop background regularly, so I wrote a small script to download the daily image from a known website and save it in a folder. Then my OS picks up a random image from that folder each minute and set it up as background image

I have a small PHP script that crawls a daily deals forum for my list of keywords and sends me an email if there is any title matching it. Has helped me saved a lot of money :)

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It seems interesting. How does your script to do that?

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