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personal scripts to make life easier

15 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 3 stories, 12 comments · first 2020-03-15 · latest 2025-12-27

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  1. See my more generalized CLI helper which does exactly this: https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/helpme Example usage: helpme ffmpeg assemble all the .jpg files into an .mp4 timelapse video at 8fps helpme zip my-folder into…
  2. See also: https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/helpme helpme ffmpeg assemble all the .jpg files into an .mp4 timelapse video at 8fps This evolved from an ffmpeg wrapper I wrote before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40410637
  3. …ps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40410637 I then made a more general version of it for all commands: https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/helpme Example usage: $ helpme ffmpeg assemble all the .jpg files into an .mp4 timelapse…
  4. I just use LLMs to help me with ffmpeg (and many other similarly complex tools) commands: https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/helpme $ helpme ffmpeg capture video from /dev/video0 every 1 second and write to .jpg files like…
    comment by dheera · 2025-01-14 · in FFmpeg by Example
  5. …container with only whatever files you're working with mounted inside. I created a new script ( https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/helpme ) that is more general, and is safer by presenting the command and requiring you to type…
  6. Author here! I just made a more generalized version for ALL commands: https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/helpme I've made it safer in that it doesn't auto-execute the command and defaults to "no". You inspect the command and…
  7. …2 extra mouse buttons for switching between virtual workspaces and another 2 for volume control. https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/config/config-... https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/config/files/x...
  8. …have to run this goddamn script to keep the microphone volume up or it always auto-adjusts it to 0. https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/jabra-stop-cha... Also, if you didn't do what my parent post's script did, you probably have…
  9. …had to delete and re-pair for every conference call. And you have to go through this nonsense https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/config/install... if you want your audio to sound better than a snake in a swimming pool, and…
  10. …The resulting password to any specific site is leakable without revealing the master password. https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/passenter
    comment by dheera · 2021-01-03 · in Design flaws of password managers
  11. …required by certain websites and also allows setting an "n" parameter that rotates the passwords. https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/passgen-params... The actual password generator: https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/p…
    comment by dheera · 2021-01-03 · in Design flaws of password managers
  12. My almost* stateless password manager: https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/passgen (generates passwords) https://github.com/dheera/scripts/blob/master/passenter (generates and types them in with a 3 second delay to switch…