• @FizzyOrange@programming.dev
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    113 days ago

    Unless you’re never doing new development you can’t automate them. The kinds of tasks I’ve used this for:

    • Making an HTML visualisation of some complex function inputs. One-off project. I could totally do this but it would take me way longer.
    • Formatting a complex and very long SystemVerilog file. There aren’t any existing SystemVerilog formatters (and certainly none that would handle the insane level of ifdefs in this file).
    • Writing a script to delete all Git branches at a particular commit. I only used this once.
    • Writing an Asciidoctor custom annotation. I don’t know Ruby so…

    You can’t automate any of those.