I've automated my morning routine 🤖

Call me lazy, but I just love automating things.
Today we are automating my morning routine.

You may be wondering what that routine is.

• Make coffee (Shit, we won't automate this, Yet!)
• Open 10 tabs

Yes, that last part we are automating using the magic and mighty bash!

See here how cool this project is:

Bash opening browser tabs

Note: This script is written/tested on Mac and can differ for you on different machines.

First, we will be making a plain old .txt file that will hold all the pages we want to open:

https://hashnode.com/
https://daily-dev-tips.com/
https://twitter.com/

Now we will be making a bash script to open all browser tabs:

alias google-chrome='/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome'
while read line; do
    google-chrome --new-tab "$line"
done < ~/www/browser-hack/list.txt

I have defined the alias for google-chrome; I think on windows, you can leave the alias out (untested).

Then we will loop through each line defined in list.txt and call google chrome to open a new tab for that website.

Next, we can add an alias to make it even cooler:

alias morning=~/path/to/script/bash.sh

Now in your terminal type: morning and see the magic happen

Voila, we just hacked our morning routine to be that much quicker!

You can find this project on Github: Browser-hack

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Comments

[𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️]

At work I have a today script that recursively fetches every git repo in my ~/workspace, sets some at timers to remind me of break time and calls fortune at the end :D

It also brings up a list of unpushed repositories at the end of the day and lets me select which ones I want automatically pushed.

[Piotr Słupski]

share

[𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️]

Here's the main script that does most of the stuff:

#!/bin/bash

pushd darkrc
git pull
popd

at 11:55 <<'BASH' 2>/dev/null
  DISPLAY=:0 notify-send 'Pause in 5 minuten'
BASH

at 12:00 <<'BASH' 2>/dev/null
  playerctl pause
  aplay gong.wav &
  DISPLAY=:0 zenity --warning --text 'Es ist 12:00' --title 'Pause!' --width=300 --height=100
BASH

if [ $(date +%w) -lt 5 ];
then
  h_end=16
else
  h_end=14
fi

at $h_end:20 <<'BASH' 2>/dev/null
  export DISPLAY=:0
  notify-send 'Feierabend in 10 minuten'
  GIT_ASKPASS=askpass git-push-pending $HOME/workspace & disown
BASH

at $h_end:30 <<'BASH' 2>/dev/null
  DISPLAY=:0 zenity --warning --text 'Feierabend! JETZT! 🍻' --title 'Feierabend!' --width=300 --height=100
BASH

farfetched ~/workspace

echo ───────────────────────────────────
fortune
echo ───────────────────────────────────

Most of the output is in German, but otherwise it should be fairly easy to follow.

The git-push-pending script is a bit more complex:

#!/bin/sh

(for name in $@; do find -L $name -name '*.git' -type d | sed 's/\/.git$//'; done) \
    | xargs git-pending \
    | grep '^ahead' \
    | lua -e 'for line in io.lines() do print(line:match("[^/]+$")); print((line:gsub("^[^ ]* ", ""))) end' \
    | zenity --list --column Repository --column Path --text "Repositories that need pushing:" --multiple --title "Git" --separator ';' --width 800 --height 300 --print-column=2 2>/dev/null \
    | tr ';' '\n' \
    | xargs -L 1 -I€ sh -c 'cd € && git push'

and it makes use of the git-pending script which looks like this:

#!/bin/sh

for line in $@
do
    dir=$(pwd)
    cd "$line"
    if git log -0 2>/dev/null
    then
        stat=$(git branch -vv | grep -P '^\*' | grep -Po '\[.*\]')
        if echo $stat | grep -P 'behind' > /dev/null
            then echo behind $line
        fi
        if echo $stat | grep -P 'ahead' > /dev/null
            then echo ahead $line
        fi
    fi
    cd $dir
done

[Chris Bongers]

Awesome, ssst. but I'm posting my GIT status script tomorrow, all build in bash to tell you what your git statusses are.

[Chris Bongers]

What that sounds amazing actually what a great idea!!

[Médéric Burlet]

Technically you could automate the coffee with bash. It has been done before:

github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts

Check the fu*ng-coffee.sh and fu*ng-coffee.rb

[Chris Bongers]

Jep, would be lovely to have a internet connected coffee machine 👀💙

[Keff]

Ohh that would be nice, offering some hacker the option to make coffee for you lol

Just kidding, it would be awesome, I thought about it before

[Chris Bongers]

Haha isn’t that what interns are for? 😂🧐

[Markus Hatvan]

Cool post Chris, it makes sense to automate the morning routine if you can save time with it!

I used to automate my routine at the last company too.
When the computer boots:

• open terminal, launch multiple tabs with frontend/backend/database connection
• open VSCode
• open LibreOffice todo notes
• open Postman
• open Email client

I just couldn't automate the work unfortunately :P

[Chris Bongers]

Seems like a good startup script Markus!

Perhaps GPT-3 could automate your work?
I still want to see if it can write blogposts for me 😂

[Markus Hatvan]

Probably, I am scared of GPT-3 becoming too powerful :P

Yes, I want that too! Tell me about it when a blog post starts writing itself :D

[Chris Bongers]

theverge.com/2020/8/16/21371049/gp...

[Leonardo Maier]

You could also pin the tabs to chrome, it would have the same behaviour

[Chris Bongers]

Yeah, but let cool :P does pinning also work on reboot? (might be, I never use it)

[Leonardo Maier]

Yes, it works. Actually, I found out this feature recently, that's why I shared it here, I used to make scripts like that too.

[Chris Bongers]

That's awesome! Nice feature indeed

[Ben Halpern]

This is really cool!

Make coffee (Shit, we won't automate this, Yet!)

I came here for something like this. No reason this can't be automated!

[Chris Bongers]

Getting my arduino in soon, might use it for something like that 🙆‍♂️

[m4r4v]

Love it man!!
I have my Linux to ask me if I want to check logs from remote servers whenever I turn on my computer.

Automation is life!!!!

[Chris Bongers]

That sounds amazing Jorge!
Nice to see so many people into automation 🤟

[Mofiqul Islam]

I use a tiling window manager in Linux and Everything is ready in assigned workspaces as soon as I boot my pc.

[Chris Bongers]

That's cool! Linux is so much easier though

[Andrew Baisden]

Nice living in the future with all of these automated workflows.

[Chris Bongers]

It could be way more automated with some raspberry pi's and wifi adopted machines.

[Aleksei Berezkin]

How about just not turning off a computer? 😉

[Chris Bongers]

Mac for instance gets so bloated if you don't fully turn them off every now and then 😂