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What are your programming hot takes? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] fubo@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The big thing you can do from the command line is script it.

[–] russmatney@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Indeed, the problem with gui apps is when you can’t script them!

I always loved alfred on osx, then loved scripting rofi on linux, only to come back to osx years later and find alfred can’t be invoked with stdin options. It’s damn shame….