Really? I had an app that would autogenarate time sheets for work in Google Sheets. I decided to minimise API calls by doing a single call to Google Drive then parse the HTML and reupload. Not a big Python project but ChatGPT hit a wall pretty fast on that one. Though, tbf the documentation was suprisingly opaque so I suppose that goes back to your point.

That project also produced my finest pile of spaghetti code since I had to account for stretched cells in the HTML parsing. I still have a piece of paper with my innumerate math scribbles. The paper makes sense to me. The code does not.

Ngl, I forgtet command options all the time. Its usually just a case of looking at the man to refresh my memory.

Also, command line allows for greater automation, has more granular control, often has more features and can be… I’m doing ain’t I? I’m being a Freeza.

Ooooh. I had no idea what SMBD was.

Yeah they’ll arrest at random and show the brazen cruel incompetent inconsistency of the law. (I live in a country that does this).

I really appreciate this list and use lots of applications like this but I would find it impossible to complety replace YouTube with PeerTube.

I like to think it was a wordplay.

Does anyone know where the writer of Farside’s preoccupation with cave men and insects comes from?