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Speaking of "Don't Repeat Yourself", tools for these problems already exist. Namely Google Calendar for those "personal alerts" and ifttt.com for reading a fee
by jpswade 14y ago
Speaking of "Don't Repeat Yourself", tools for these problems already exist.
Namely Google Calendar for those "personal alerts" and ifttt.com for reading a feed an emailing you or whatever.
Not that it's a bad idea to use this, it's just not everything needs to be programmed from scratch, there's quite often a decent tool to do the job already.
- pluies_public 14y agoIndeed, and if you want to stick to the command line... Use `mail` and script away.
- astangl 14y agoYeah, I came here to say the same thing. For all the people running some Unix variant with local mail, the Python script seems pointless, versus just calling mail.