Daniel Perelman
The problem# In a shell script, I wanted to use inotifywait's --monitor option to watch for changes to files, but I didn't care how many changes had been made, only whether or not changes had been made. I wanted to use --monitor as if more changes where made later, I still wanted to get notified...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# I wanted a web page to always show the latest version, but the page is a static page that is auto-regenerated when new data is available, and I did not want to complicate my setup by involving server-side logic in accomplishing that. This can be done manually by clicking the refresh...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# For a compile-on-save workflow where some computation is done in response to every change to a file, if there may sometimes be many changes close together, it may be wasteful to respond to all of them. This is often handled by debouncing the events: instead of responding to every...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# A few months ago, I wrote about using todo.txt to keep track of household tasks. The key word there being "household": many of the tasks I'm tracking are not performed on a computer. I mentioned this issue in the post, that I wanted to look into some way to view those tasks not from...