happens every time ?

But you got that satisfied feeling

@devTea yeaaah!!

Wtf is up with the question mark?

We always thought the job gonna happens again. #devlogic

what if it turns out I would do the same task atleast 13 times in the future? 😋

I once actually applied the "is it worth the time" XKCD to figure out whether it's worth it creating and putting into autostart a script that does two clicks for me on every boot. The preferred result came out. :)
Link for the lazy: https://xkcd.com/1205/

@shaji sometimes it doesn't happens. XD
We actually endup using the script multiple time.

@baracula94 exactly XD

@ralnivar WE WILL USE THE SCRIPT AND SAVE TIME, but then again if we waste more time adding more feature for future and this time we don't need it again? XD

@Fabian NICE

It turns out it's not one time. And when your boss asks again you make a big fuss/rant....

And then you complete this huge task in a few minutes by just running the app (which hopefully still works) and go

I'll unironically do this because it leaves me with a thing that might have a use later and it's more fun.

It can be tough to explain to my boss why I spent two hours inserting these 20 mock values into the database though.

“Automate the boring stuff”
Book title and personal philosophy.

Also it’s a really sweet book if you haven’t checked it out yet!

@devTea Haha, true!

And now here comes that idiot with his stupid "eating soup with a fork" analogy.

No no no....

84 hours of TensorFlow training on a data set of all my past decisions, to determine whether I should do the task manually or write a script for it.

Although 61 hours of that was trying to find out how to fix my Python version, environment and dependencies, which are in a perpetual spaghetti state.

@billgates it turns out it doesn't and you spend another 5h

@notarealDev yes actually I did that last night for my own project... But only 1hr...

It's not a waste of time, you are developing your automation/scripting skills. And yeah, that feeling when it works!

You think "ye, no need to waste time on script, thats last time I have to do this", but then there are 10 more times to do it and you think the same every time...

Always write a scpript, it may be useful someday.

You don't know if you will need to repeat the process in the future.

For Windows users, I recommend TinyTask. It can record and replay mouse and keyboard input, so you can just record yourself doing the task the first time and then let it do the other times, possibly also faster. So in the worst case, you would just have as many failed attempts at recording a consistent macro as the times you have to do the thing. So you never lose time, but usually gain a lot.

😂