Yeah, I’ve been nursing one of these projects for a while…
Initially it started out as an autohotkey script, because I’m not a programmer, I’m a filthy windows engineer.
Then I tried rewriting it in Powershell because I wanted to own the code (v1 was written on work time, so they provably own it), and have it in something slightly less arcane (!). That was not a great choice of languages, but I’m still not ready to learn a real one, yet.
There’s surely some head banging roflcopter in there - I’m still not sure I’ve tested all the scenarios, but I just don’t have the emotional energy to wade through it (and my client can’t even use the new version, I’m not sure any others would care).
We all have one. I’m also not a professional programmer but I have stuff like this for my home automation that I know I should really clean up but it works so I don’t want to mess around and break it.
Yeah, I’ve been nursing one of these projects for a while…
Initially it started out as an autohotkey script, because I’m not a programmer, I’m a filthy windows engineer.
Then I tried rewriting it in Powershell because I wanted to own the code (v1 was written on work time, so they provably own it), and have it in something slightly less arcane (!). That was not a great choice of languages, but I’m still not ready to learn a real one, yet.
There’s surely some head banging roflcopter in there - I’m still not sure I’ve tested all the scenarios, but I just don’t have the emotional energy to wade through it (and my client can’t even use the new version, I’m not sure any others would care).
It was fun, but now it’s just a burden
We all have one. I’m also not a professional programmer but I have stuff like this for my home automation that I know I should really clean up but it works so I don’t want to mess around and break it.