• pastermil@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    I smash my open palm to my keyboard everytime I’m naming something.

    In another news, I am currently looking for a job as my employer fired me for ‘improper variable naming’.

    • kabi@lemm.ee
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      4 days ago

      spends ten minutes figuring out which one’s the latest

      has to save it again

      “new (actual)(for real)”

    • toynbee@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      I used to have this problem, but now I go with one of two solutions:

      • filename-$(date +%F) (or similar)
        • example: notes-2024-12-14.txt
        • can be expanded to include further time details if more than one iteration per day is released
      • filename-Mk#
        • example: product-design-MkII (Or Mk2 if you prefer)
        • pretty much infinitely expandable and you always know which is latest
      • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de
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        4 days ago

        You know how to script and what a symlink is; why aren’t you using git or any other kind of version control instead?

        • toynbee@lemmy.world
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          4 days ago

          Because I formed these habits in the nineties and 00’s, well before git was a thing; and because nothing I write matters, other than possibly to my employers, in which case I do use (primarily) git … Or other version control. (Believe it or not, I’ve used subversion.)

          Most of the documents to which I apply this are things like my resume and DNS server. No one but me will ever care.

          Also, I like you both for asking this question and for how you put it.

  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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    4 days ago

    Can’t relate at all. I’m a taxonomy nerd, everything has its own defined subdirectory, the files follow a defined naming convention. Send help.

  • tequinhu@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    grep -irl "some text that the file would have"

    (Obiously only work for text files, but that’s enough to cover 90% of cases for me)