On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Ales Guzik <[email protected]> wrote:

> * Emacs. For those who know, this should speak for itself as I've got
>> quite a collection of elisp snippets and plan to collect keyboard
>> macros as well. Do any other users feel like contributing?
>>
>
> I am using emacs for like 3 years and the best contribution to my
> productivity
> was starting using evil (http://emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil) and learning
> vim.
> Basically, despite emacs is a superior scripting and automation
> environment,
> vim's approach to editing text is much more efficient. With evil you can
> get
> best of both worlds.
>
>
>> * Rake tasks. Utilities for doing common tasks like cleaning up my
>> files (nuking tempfiles, esp) broken out by specific use case. Rake
>> allows you to specify dependencies as well, which helps to keep things
>> in order. For example, I always clean up before I backup a directory
>> but don't want to have to remember it.
>>
>
> I use a bunch of plain shell scripts and zsh aliases to speed-up daily
> tasks.
> Could you please point me to some (code) examples of Rake tasks for
> automation which benefits from dependencies?
>
>
>> * IFTTT. One of the most awesome things to write robots for hooking
>> actions on various services together. For example, if tomorrow's
>> forecast includes rain, I get a text message the night before. I also
>> get sports scores and notifications about free MP3 albums on Amazon.
>> https://ifttt.com/
>>
>
> I second this! IFTTT is really awesome.
> Nice addition to it is pushover (https://pushover.net/) which allows you
> to
> push messages to your android/ios device. Pushover is also dead-simple to
> use
> in bash, ruby or any programming language which can send http requests.
>
> You can find my complete current setup at
> http://github.com/alesguzik/home/
> most scripts are in ~/bin , some are just symlinks pointing to scripts in
> git submodules.
> Emacs config is at https://github.com/alesguzik/.emacs.d/
> Also you may (or may not) be interested in
> https://github.com/alesguzik/screenlog
> which I wrote to track how I spend my time (and to track time worked on
> some projects).
>
> --
>  Ales Guzik <[email protected]>
>  skype: ales-guzik
>  tel: +375 29 5751103
>
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