Sunday, March 11, 2018

More new stuff

git-ssh and ipwaiter have both been rewritten in Python.

Python 3 to be exact. Python 3 is a stronger scripting language, and allows us to avoid the situation in bash where we were forced to call eval() on an arbitrary piece of code.

At this time I have no plans of porting pstate-frequency or update-hosts to Python, as both scripts are more reliant on starting up quickly and running quickly, and in the case of update-hosts in particular, are very reliant on bash's strong piping and external program syntax. Neither make calls to eval in an unsafe manner (though an eval call is made to parse the OPTIND but in a safe environment) so the general need for a stronger language like Python is not as convincing as it was to port ipwaiter or git-ssh. I also - regrettably -  like bash.

Android apps continue to get updates and excitement builds as new Android P features are announced. One in particular that caught my attention was the new cropping and editing features which are now built into screenshots at an OS level. As such, Screenie will be shelved for the time being as it is no longer a needed third party application. Alas - beaten to the punch by Google again, although at least this time for good reason. New app will swing around soon - since I like making things and there will always been things that need to be made.

Stay tuned.

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