Autohotkey? Naw, you wanna setup a daily cron job to read and replace every one of your common typos with the correct spelling. That’s the way, trust me.
Dude, I set up wild crap with Autohotkey, for a job. I had it logging in to vendor websites where it would pull up clients, compare contact info to our local system, check if recent payment had been made, pull appropriate client docs (if not already in our local system), and leave notes for me before moving onto the next client on the list. I had AHK doing most of the job I was hired for.
Thankfully, the multiple vendor websites made occasional changes to their layouts, color schemes, etc. so all my methods of navigation would inevitably break, requiring me to maintain it.
I was also building stuff where it would automatically fire off an email at certain points if there was a special change to tell the client about, if payment wasn’t seen on the vendor site by certain deadlines, etc.
That job eventually fell through for unrelated reasons (they moved me off that to somewhere they needed me more, and several years later got pushed out of that position and the company entirely).
Where do I get a job that let’s me build that stuff again?!
In a perfect world you could get paid to automate stuff with AHK. I wonder if you could market yourself as an AHK consultant where you basically shadow someone’s job for a week and then start figuring out how to automate the tedious stuff.
Personally I like the functionality of AHK but I can’t stand the syntax compared to Python and C. I start with such great plans of what I want to automate but get sick of fighting with the language after about an hour and settle for something simple.
You press c and t using the same finger, and i with another. So since you need to use the same finger twice in a row, also moving it a fair distance in between, your other finger just presses the button a little bit too soon, and that’s how you end up with funciton
funcitonIdk why but that’s how I type it half the time.
And you can continue typing it that way for as long as you want if you set up autohotkey to automatically fix your typos.
Autohotkey? Naw, you wanna setup a daily cron job to read and replace every one of your common typos with the correct spelling. That’s the way, trust me.
Edit: Daily cron job typo correction.
Dude, I set up wild crap with Autohotkey, for a job. I had it logging in to vendor websites where it would pull up clients, compare contact info to our local system, check if recent payment had been made, pull appropriate client docs (if not already in our local system), and leave notes for me before moving onto the next client on the list. I had AHK doing most of the job I was hired for.
Thankfully, the multiple vendor websites made occasional changes to their layouts, color schemes, etc. so all my methods of navigation would inevitably break, requiring me to maintain it.
I was also building stuff where it would automatically fire off an email at certain points if there was a special change to tell the client about, if payment wasn’t seen on the vendor site by certain deadlines, etc.
That job eventually fell through for unrelated reasons (they moved me off that to somewhere they needed me more, and several years later got pushed out of that position and the company entirely).
Where do I get a job that let’s me build that stuff again?!
In a perfect world you could get paid to automate stuff with AHK. I wonder if you could market yourself as an AHK consultant where you basically shadow someone’s job for a week and then start figuring out how to automate the tedious stuff.
Personally I like the functionality of AHK but I can’t stand the syntax compared to Python and C. I start with such great plans of what I want to automate but get sick of fighting with the language after about an hour and settle for something simple.
You press c and t using the same finger, and i with another. So since you need to use the same finger twice in a row, also moving it a fair distance in between, your other finger just presses the button a little bit too soon, and that’s how you end up with
funciton‘c’ and ‘t’ should definitely be hit with different fingers if you do touch-typing. But with one hand, that’s true.
Fixed. Brought to you by ortho gang.
there’s no ‘i’ on that keyboard?
And two Ls
Won’t you take me to
funcitooon?
Won’t you take me to
funcitoon.