Comment on Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools.

• autokludge@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have a lot of repetition in my job (CAD modeller). Even just knowing keyboard shortcuts & setting up shortcuts for frequently used operations can easily net me 5 seconds per operation. I want to spend my energy on solving the task at hand, not on how to use the tool in the moment. I don’t want to move the mouse away from the work area if I can help it.

  Maybe not as frequent 5 per day - but scripts for really bottom of the barrel stuff:

  • Cycle thru all currently open drawing documents, zoom to full page and force save.
    • zoom out ensures drawing can be identified from document thumbnail.
    • the software is known to crash, especially editing drawings.
    • easy 10mins duplicated work saved.
  • Printing all open drawings out to the office printer in order with a delay between them, so i don’t spend the next 20 minutes manually sorting the drawing prints.
    • printers don’t always print in incoming order, some documents take longer to process.
  • find/replace for text notes
    • the software doesn’t have that feature.

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