benjaminoakes

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   by benjaminoakes 3y ago

   https://www.benjaminoakes.com Mostly a link blog, but some original Ruby content on occasion
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   by benjaminoakes 6y ago

   I find gron to be much more Unix-y than jq. It "explodes" JSON into single lines for use with grep, sed, etc and can recombine back into JSON as well. https://github.com/TomNomNom/gron
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   by benjaminoakes 13y ago

   I keep wondering if they'll try a Linux-based desktop for certain use cases. It could be offered for a cheaper price, perhaps. Hard to say if it would happen, but it would fit in with Amazon's previous AWS offerings. Definitely
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   by benjaminoakes 14y ago

   Arduino to the rescue? :)
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   by benjaminoakes 14y ago

   I'd love that as well. It's certainly something I'd like to implement... but as of yet, I haven't come across many use cases (personally) in which it's necessary. That said, I would definitely accept help in adding event-driven rules!
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   by benjaminoakes 14y ago

   I can certainly see where you're coming from. Many of those people would probably benefit from Hazel more than Maid, however. :) As it stands, Maid is somewhere in between hand-crafted shell scripts and a user-friendly GUI (but definitel
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   by benjaminoakes 14y ago

   I used to use bash scripts and `find` for the purposes that you give. Maid came about when I was starting to add logging and a "dry run" option to those bash scripts. Ruby quickly became an attractive option then. But for many one-off ta
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   by benjaminoakes 14y ago

   Maid (and Hazel) certainly aren't for everyone. The original intent behind making Maid was to automate part of what drivebyacct2 describes. I just got tired of manually doing things that could be easily automated. :) Maid isn't only for
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   by benjaminoakes 14y ago

   This is now https://github.com/benjaminoakes/maid/issues/78
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    by benjaminoakes 14y ago

    That's something I'll definitely consider. maid clean # Give error message maid clean --noop # Show what would happen maid clean --force # or maybe --execute # Do actions I'll be making an issue for this if no o
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    by benjaminoakes 14y ago

    I've posted some rules that I use as an example: https://github.com/benjaminoakes/maid-example I hope it helps! Ben