nothing-cli 0.1.0

Nothing helps coder be more smarter & less dumber.

Nothing (not)

Nothing help coder be more smarter, some cooler, less dumber. not.

Inspo & Rationale

Once upon a time we all read this brief article about "do-nothing scripting".

Very cool, but even those scripts take time!

[Juxtapose OG example against Recipe version]

More why:

• Ease automation woes (dotfile scripts lol). Clip your wax wings early before you try to build robots.
• Fast to use! Build these things rampantly at the project level
  • Attach them to commit hooks?
  • Keep yourself accountable
  • Bring consistency to things u do often
• Shareable

Sample

Configure your Recipe as simple yaml mixed with simple Python templating:

---
title: A sample set of do-nothing instructions

# the user will be prompted to provide these values
# and the values will persist through the run
context:
  - current_user_name
  - what_user_accomplished_today

# a set of steps is most easily represented as block scalar
# each step is simply denoted as a line break
# plain python templates are used to interpolate context
steps: |-
  Take a good look at yourself, {current_user_name}.

  I heard you accomplished something great today: {what_user_accomplished_today}.
  Give yourself a pat on the back!

# https://yaml-multiline.info/#block-scalars

Run it like so:

not do sample

Want a new one?

not new preflight-checks
# drops you into your $EDITOR if that's set

Didn't like how it turned out? That's fine.

not edit preflight-checks

Bigger Example

• Uses dictionary syntax in context
• Higher config

Features

Stylish & Modern

• Pleasant interactivity a-la the Nicest CLI tools
• Colorful & playful since work_smart == work_less == play_more
• Funky (but standard), highly readable YAML format
• High config
  • (Give much more thought to where how & when)

Saving your sweet nothings

• Can be in a project-specific .nothing/ directory
• or system level ~/.nothing
• or as a local *.not file