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I have sometimes questioned whether I should be spending my personal time developing an open source tool so tied to a single companies services. My reasons for
by failmode 7y ago
I have sometimes questioned whether I should be spending my personal time developing an open source tool so tied to a single companies services.
My reasons for continuing include:
- I prefer to use command line over ClickOps
- Using Bash-My-AWS makes me more effective at work
- The emergent UX is equally applicable to other services (e.g. bash-my-github, bash-my-spotify)
- The intrinsic satisfaction from creating
- Helping improve the experience for others
- notyourwork 7y agoThanks for the tool and reasons for building it. I will check it out tomorrow!
- NotSammyHagar 7y agoI looked, no one created packages with those 2 names that I could fine, although there are some clis for controlling spotify it seems. Were you referring to specific packages somewhere for github and spotify?
- failmode 7y agobash-my-github and bash-my-spotify are two things I've made a start on but are not public yet. They've been on the backburner for a while due to competing priorities. I was able to write a simple command that returned all songs a friend and I had in common in our public playlists. I forget the exact syntax but it was something roughly along the lines of: $ sort <( user-playlists alice | playlist-tracks user-playlists bob | playlist-tracks ) | uniq --repeated