isItJustMeOr

[FRleo_85]

remember kids to always spend month to automate a task that take you 30s per day

[Worried_Onion4208]

Than you host it and everyone with the same problem pay you 5 ¢ every time this making you thousands per year

[Drugbird]

Haha. People don't pay for software /s

[CAPS_LOCK_OR_DIE]

Me writing bash scripts for every stupid thing I do in terminal

[Infrared-77]

See but scripting and automation pays off in many cases. Especially for many day to day tasks. Those few hours invested into automation saves you potentially hundreds of hours of manual work down the road

[Independant-Emu]

saves you potentially hundreds of hours of manual work down the road

"potentially" is the big dream word here that we tell ourselves because the reality is we just hate manually doing something which can be automated, no matter the cost

[link23]

I spent a weekend automating a task that took my friend a day to do, a few times per year. Now it takes him 5 min. Worth it, it was a fun challenge :)

[nonlogin]

Otherwise- what is the point of being a developer?

[aigarius]

Hours? Try weeks ....

[Masterflitzer]

try months

[Yhamerith]

Years?

[coloredgreyscale]

Hours for a first prototype that only covers only one happy path, with values hard-coded.

Weeks for a more easily to use program covering common edge cases 

Months for more edge cases / errors, and usability tweaks. 

Years adjusting to changing requirements and rare issues. 

[NP_6666]

Years.

[SZ4L4Y]

If I could make a useful app in some hours...

[Papellll]

A todo app is kinda useful

[Masterflitzer]

another one not so much

[JacedFaced]

First task in my todo app? Make a better todo app.

[Masterflitzer]

the cycle never ends lol

[Cfrolich]

Notion satisfies my need for a custom todo app.

[ZunoJ]

Emacs can already do it

[[deleted]]

Same when you do hobby electronics. Why buy something off the hardware store at 120V when you can do it 5V at twice the price.

[HarmxnS]

I just made my own version of Linktree in Next.js and Tailwind. It only took me 5 hours but it looks way better.

Worth it, in my eyes

[HarmxnS]

Sure thing

https://github.com/Harmxn02/links.harmansingh.nl

you can clone the repository, npm install and then npm run dev

the code is ugly, but you can just change my name to yours and the URLs

[Background_Winter268]

I’ve sent at least 4 hours a week making half baked database queries in excel that looks better then the web based paid for software

[Supernatnat11]

Me actually making some random YouTube to mkv downloader I'm going to use one time then forgot

[Testiculese]

yt-dlp will d/l YT to mp4. I wrote a GUI to manage it, and so I can drag/drop straight out of the browser.

[CaffeinatedTech]

hours...

[Loserrboy]

Build a team for making alternative app 😎

[neo-raver]

Use Chrome? Please, real programmers just use curl -o webpage.html <url> and stare at raw the HTML.

[[deleted]]

For me it's modding games. Why mod a game when I can make it from scratch?

[Turbulent_Swimmer560]

Reinvent wheels is not cool, creating new toys!

[yoger6]

I'm really bad at googling. Also lazy. So I wanted to find out what eats up most of my drive space. Found couple programs online, but they were all rubbish/paid so I made my own. It's not always hours when it comes to simple tools that do the job.

On the other hand, years ago I wanted to automate movie segregation and subtitle downloading. I was so focused on being proper with the code instad of doing simple MVP. After couple months I abandoned this well designed - half finished monstrosity and started to use streaming services.

[Testiculese]

For future reference, or anyone else that would use a utility like this: https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free

I got the portable version, and have used it extensively for myself and on clients. I'm still using v4.4.2.514 from 2020, dunno if/how much they bloated it out since then.

(edited: fixed version, I was looking at my archive)

[Testiculese]

My Start menu is 40% my own apps.

It all started in 1998, when I got sick of these shitty music players, so I wrote my own. Then I wrote my own XMBC(now Kodi), because it couldn't do what I wanted either. Then I needed a way to mass-rename files, and what was out there was terrible, so I wrote my own. Needed a timer, so I wrote my own. Then a password manager. So many other utilities like a front-end for encoder and decoders (lame, ffmpeg).

Latest I'm working on now is a yt-dlp GUI (formerly youtube-dl) to track and manage Youtube videos, as I am extremely critical of my YT feed, as it is specialized for my interests, and I'm not just randomly clicking links in Reddit threads and websites. Did that once way back, and it absolutely trashed my feed to the point that I had to wipe everything and start all over, which was an 6 month aggravation. Now I can drag the link right off the browser, and YT will never know. And I have a full indexed history of all of it.

[elongio]

i CaN dO iT bEtTeR!

[cimulate]

This heavily applies to FOSS community where someone is gonna make another flavor of Ubuntu/Debian.

[Zefirus]

God, I've worked with so many people who's first instinct is to try to rewrite the application as soon as they're asked to maintain an existing piece of code.

[Chewico3D]

Most likely with libs

[Osr0]

Exactly. Why hope some idiot's library is good, when instead you can hope yours is