/Scripts

Pesky Little Scripts

- Redowan Delowar

• Scripts

tl;dr: Redowan accumulated a lot of shell scripts. which caused pain because the tab completion results get cluttered with other system commands, until he found this recent hack: "All your scripts should start with a character as a prefix that doesn’t have any special meaning in the shell environment. Another requirement is that no other system command should start with your chosen character." That way, when you type the prefix character and hit tab, only your custom scripts should appear and nothing else.

featured in #469

Getting A Vanity Phone Number With 4 Repeating Digits

- JonLuca DeCaro

• Scripts

tl;dr: "I didn’t really care what the area code was, so removing the params should make it easier to find a number I liked. I wrote a quick script to repeatedly call the API and try and find a number with at least 3 consecutive numbers."

featured in #322