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[-] grue@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

relevant xkcd

[-] Adda@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nevertheless, there is the one hidden advantage of this approach: You learn new things while trying to automate everything. Remember, that it is the journey that is important, not the destination ;)

[-] yote_zip@pawb.social 9 points 1 year ago

Sometimes you've got time now and you don't know if you will later. My folder full of messy scripts are an investment for the future! Any day now...

[-] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

When you automate something and then never use it again.

[-] Golfindriel@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

This is the way.

[-] Luvon@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

And don’t forget the 10 hours to adapt it to a more generic workflow when you need to do something similar 3 weeks later

[-] z500@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just straight up gave up trying to automate renewing my wildcard certificate from Letsencrypt after who knows how many weekends. Typing a single command won't kill me lol

[-] Kawaiikurai@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Sounds like you can schedule that command with crontab then

[-] z500@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's the easy part, the hard part was getting the acme-dns authentication to work since you can't use the regular automated update with a wildcard certificate.

[-] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 4 points 1 year ago

What exactly are you having trouble with? I've automated all of our LetsEncrypt renewal stuff at work, including certs for wildcard domains, and it's using the DNS plugin.

[-] z500@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly I've sunk so much time into this that I never want to think about it again if I can just run a shell script once every 3 months haha. I never understood the process too well.

[-] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 2 points 1 year ago

Ok, well, let me know if you want some help with it in the future, because I've done it an uncountable number of times.

[-] z500@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I appreciate that. My cert is expiring in a few weeks, maybe I'll take another crack at it.

[-] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 1 points 1 year ago

Ok, let me know if you want help.

[-] withersailor@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago

I'm feeling targeted.

[-] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 6 points 1 year ago

I was not prepared to look into a mirror when I opened this post...

[-] tappyturtle@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

And then spending an hour fiddling with my crontab

[-] freakrho@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

i automate things so i have more free time for my hobby: automating things

[-] jcat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

My husband will not admit it but this is him

[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

The one thing that i will avoid at any cost is math, i would rather write a program to do it for me

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