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This looks cool, but it seems like a great example of when a gui would be better than a command line.
by soared 8y ago
This looks cool, but it seems like a great example of when a gui would be better than a command line.
- majkinetor 8y agoI disagree. All GUI tools are limited and soon you get out of the comfort zone if you use them for more then 2 things. That is the main reason I created AU framework[^1] for chocolatey which main choco repo uses to daily watch and update 250+ packages[^2]. Previously they used Ketarin tool which is GUI and was very limited and hard to on-board too. Its basically this, but you program simple PowerShell functions that can check for changes using whatever available in .NET. The same goes for any declarative tool - you simply need a good programming language all the time. [^1] https://github.com/majkinetor/au https://github.com/majkinetor/au [^2] https://gist.github.com/choco-bot/a14b1e5bfaf70839b338eb1ab7f8226f https://gist.github.com/choco-bot/a14b1e5bfaf70839b338eb1ab7...
- nsriv 8y agoI completely agree, would be interesting to see if a Qt GUI can be made with this as the underlying engine.
- dmortin 8y agoI use Distill for this which is implemented as a browser extension. Works pretty well: https://distill.io/ https://distill.io/
- casperc 8y agoAnything in the open source realm with a similar use case of watching for something specific to change on a web site? Would be nice to run this from a home server/raspberry pi.
- dmortin 8y agoI don't know about OSS server side software, but I use the free version of Distill on my own computer in the browser, so it's run locally. My browser is always open, so it's a good platform for checking changes.
- acct1771 8y agoChange Detection on F-Droid is pretty great, not sure if you wanted it on a PC or not.