Also relevant xkcd
Nevertheless, there is the one hidden advantage of this approach: You learn new things while trying to automate everything. Remember, that it is the journey that is important, not the destination ;)
Sometimes you’ve got time now and you don’t know if you will later. My folder full of messy scripts are an investment for the future! Any day now…
When you automate something and then never use it again.
This is the way.
I was not prepared to look into a mirror when I opened this post…
And don’t forget the 10 hours to adapt it to a more generic workflow when you need to do something similar 3 weeks later
I’m feeling targeted.
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i automate things so i have more free time for my hobby: automating things
And then spending an hour fiddling with my crontab
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My husband will not admit it but this is him
The one thing that i will avoid at any cost is math, i would rather write a program to do it for me