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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?
Hello Andrew, Andrew Singleton <singletona082@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 immediate advantage of using shell, imho. I don't have to. But lets face it: if I use gpg on the command line, I cannot really go beyond this and do the calculation of a hash sum "by hand". There is always 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 my blog in order to make it accessible with a web browser. And sometimes I need this myself. I don't have an always online machine with me all day long including a gemini browser. --- Actually this "simple" question touches on a whole universe ...
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 04:35:15AM +0000, Andrew Singleton said: > Any reasons for this as opposed to doing it by hand? What advantage > does your tools give to your workflow? I don't think there is any difference between the advantages of physical or virtual tools. They make the work easier (in some cases, possible), and reduce errors. In my particular case, the automation helps prevent omissions and provides a common, predictable format to my posts. --Matt -- Matthew Ernisse matt@going-flying.com gemini://going-flying.com/
I write my posts by hand, then use tools that automatically generate next/previous links, category/tag archives, and tables of contents. That saves a lot of time and cuts down on the risk of broken links from typos, or forgetting to include something, etc. --Kelson Vibber On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 9:35 PM Andrew Singleton <singletona082@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? >
Ditto what Kelson mentioned. Plus it's not fun to write those "next links" and "table of contents" every time you want to post. For me, automation scripts make gemini more enjoyable to use. On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 10:26 AM Kelson Vibber <kelson@pobox.com> wrote: > I write my posts by hand, then use tools that automatically generate > next/previous links, category/tag archives, and tables of contents. That > saves a lot of time and cuts down on the risk of broken links from typos, > or forgetting to include something, etc. > > --Kelson Vibber > > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 9:35 PM Andrew Singleton <singletona082@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> 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? >> >
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