Tacitus 🇮🇪  Jun 12, 2023
How did you day go? because here's how mine went: A story in n-1 parts.
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#Webcomics
I spent the morning thinking about how I can't read new webcomics, reading through archive in a browser is too cumbersome. It's fine if they're only just starting but if it's been going for a few years reading it in a tab and coming back every now and again is not easy, and there're a lot I want to pick up.
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#Webscrape
I then though about how maybe I should #develop a #program to #scrape a #webcomics #HTML and create a structured file with links to each page. Something that could probably just run on a cron job and produce a #YAMl or #JSON file containing a predefined structure that can be read by an #android app.
Jun 12, 2023 at 11:03pmWeb
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#Lisp
Then I though "This is a good opportunity to #learn #Lisp". I've been looking for a good project to learn it with and this seems decent. https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/web-scraping.html seems like a good start. Let's get cracking.
Web Scraping

A collection of examples of using Common Lisp

Show threadTacitus 🇮🇪  Jun 12, 2023
#Podman
Well actually I have been meaning to #learn #Podman as well for portable, self contained development environments. Rather than having loads of compilers and libraries and tools and utilities and and and...
Let's do that right now then.
Found no good #tutorials, I'm going in naked.
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#Git
Lot of changes to my containerfile, I should be tracking this in #Git, just in case I need to revert.
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#Git #workflow
Should update my githooks to use a better workflow. I've been including the branch name and description in my commits automatically for a few years now. Maybe I should update it?
conventionalcommits.org looks good, might tweak some. Alright let's get to work on that...
Show threadTacitus 🇮🇪  Jun 12, 2023
#Git #Workflow
Hmmm, now that I look at it I really like the #git trailers feature, should incorporate that.
Can I use #YAML with it?
Sort of. Trailers are not recognised as YAML but can be multiline so can be parsed as YAML externally.
Can trailers be made to preserve line breaks?
Seems like it.
Trailers don't want to go after three dashes, but i want to put three dashes because I'm odd like that. Seems like it can be made to work.
Show threadTacitus 🇮🇪  Jun 12, 2023
#Git #Workflow
git interpret-trailer doesn't seem to work with commits directly, only messages in files or pipes. I'll need to write my own utility functions that can add the trailers to the commit automatically at commit time like my current githooks do. Better get to work on tha...
Show threadTacitus 🇮🇪  Jun 12, 2023

huh, it's 00:16 right now.

So there it is, I spent the day hopping from one thing to another without getting a single thing done -_-