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@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-06-07 23:19:36

I maintain a heterogeneous MSP environment for backup which consists of a collection of sh scripts (they mostly run on FreeBSD) with (c) notes dating back to 2004, with 5 authors, 4 of whom are no longer my cow-orkers. As the unfortunate 5th, I am still doing tweaks to catch edge & corner cases >20y after the 1st author had the idea that rsync, shell, mt, & standard POSIX tools could be assembled into a decent free backup world.
Use Python. Or Go. Or even Perl.

David Gerard (@davidgerard@circumstances.run)
speaking as someone who uses bash all the time, it’s a fully equipped programming language and you absolutely should not use it as one because it’s made of footbullets. Use Python. For extra sysadmin flavour, make it a Python script that does all the hard bits with a system call to bash.

@felwert@fedihum.org
2025-06-04 13:30:30

Hivemind: I noticed that my academic CV is the last document I maintain in #TeXLaTeX. Is there a #Markdown (preferably #pandoc) based CV system/template/filter that you can recommend? PDF output is required, HTML …

@wwwgem@social.linux.pizza
2025-05-22 21:09:30

Everybody is crushing their challenges, but I'm ashamed to have lost my 0 post challenge for this year :) Here is the evidence: www-gem.codeberg.page/picom/.

Animations with picom
I’ve relied on Compositor in X11 for years to manage window transparency. My tiling manager doesn’t display borders or gaps, and I find decorations distracting. Initially, I used picom leveraging only its basic functionality. I’ve long considered animations counterproductive and visually taxing. However, I discovered that picom allows custom animation creation (you learn everyday with Linux). The level of customization offers both extensive personalization options and the ability to maint…