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[discussion] Tool Making

ew.gemini ew.gemini at nassur.net

Wed Aug 18 08:37:21 BST 2021

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Hello Andrew,

Andrew Singleton <singletona082 at gmail.com> writes:

In my last thread I had noticed a lot of you just a fair

degree of tools both ready made and self assembled.

Any reasons for this as opposed to doing it by hand? What

advantage does your tools give to your workflow?

Well, for me:- I work in IT, so I have "my tools" at my fingertips all day long, namely: emacs, shell.- I am lazy in the sense, that I'm not going to type in the same tedious commands many times.- self made tools are going to take the "tedious" bit out.

I can still edit my capsule by hand. That is an immediateadvantage of using shell, imho. I don't have to. But lets faceit: if I use gpg on the command line, I cannot really go beyondthis and do the calculation of a hash sum "by hand". There isalways a limit.

But I am never going to transform .gmi to .html by hand. Nope.That is a waste of time. I am producing a .html version of myblog in order to make it accessible with a web browser. Andsometimes I need this myself. I don't have an always onlinemachine with me all day long including a gemini browser.

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Actually this "simple" question touches on a whole universe ...

I do it my way -- you do it your way, please.

My scripts are available online, and they might serve as inspiration to others. But please do this stuff your way! "Your way", not my way.

Our ways change over time. We can choose to use different tools at any point, if we want to. For whatever reason.

There is not /one/ solution for a given problem, but many

Why are there so many solutions for the same problem?". That's because my brain works my way and not anyone elses.

Diversity in Code is a mirror of diversity in peoples minds

I strongly object to the "one size fits all"-hypothesis. If it's Rust for you, go for it. It's still going to be shell or perl for me, or C.

Perceived "elite-ness" (or whatever the correct term would be)

I have been told that "we opensource hackers" (I'm one of them :) are extremely elitist, because we are not helping all the normies out. (The person, who told me, is belonging to the latter group, even though he is not a stupid person at all!)

That is a bold statement to make imho. The person was demanding my time for free to do his homework sort of. No. I'm not in for that. If they are willing to learn how to do it, I can help. If not, tough luck.

My point is this: If I know a tool (shell, say) and I know how to solve a given problem (converting .gmi to .html) with this tool, then I can use it. The person in the above paragraph cannot be helped with shell, because it is not their tool.

Heck, I'm not sure, whether this is relevant for your quest tounderstand "why am I not doing this by hand". This is just myopinion after being involved with computers for

30 years. Butnot everyone is a IT person. I am interested to hear otheropinions.

Cheers,~ew

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