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Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

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1212 points speckx | 2 comments | 22 Oct 25 14:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.404s | source
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oceanplexian ◴[22 Oct 25 18:11 UTC] No.45672984[source]▶
It's weird how the circle of life progresses for a developer or whatever.

- When I was a fresh engineer I used a pretty vanilla shell environment

- When I got a year or two of experience, I wrote tons of scripts and bash aliases and had a 1k+ line .bashrc the same as OP

- Now, as a more tenured engineer (15 years of experience), I basically just want a vanilla shell with zero distractions, aliases or scripts and use native UNIX implementations. If it's more complicated than that, I'll code it in Python or Go.

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trenchpilgrim ◴[22 Oct 25 18:42 UTC] No.45673397[source]▶
When I had one nix computer, I wanted to customize it heavily.

Now I have many nix computers and I want them consistent and with only the most necessary packages installed.

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ozim ◴[22 Oct 25 20:16 UTC] No.45674593[source]▶
Besides many nix computers I also have wife, dog, children, chores, shopping to be done. Unlike when I was young engineer I could stay all night fiddling with bash scripts and environments.
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soraminazuki ◴[23 Oct 25 07:30 UTC] No.45679185[source]▶
What does your wife, dog, children, chores, and shopping have to do with custom configuration and scripts? Just set up a Git repo online, put your files there, and take a couple of minutes to improve it incrementally when you encounter inconveniences. And just like that, you made your life easier for a marginal effort.
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1718627440 ◴[23 Oct 25 11:13 UTC] No.45680528[source]▶
They compete for time.
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1. soraminazuki ◴[23 Oct 25 12:23 UTC] No.45681022[source]▶
I'm saying that makes no sense, as I've wrote in the comment you're replying to.
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2. 1718627440 ◴[23 Oct 25 21:58 UTC] No.45687821[source]▶
Having a wife increases the opportunity costs of the time you spend on maintaining the scripts and also increases the costs while writing these (when the wife is nagging).