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📣 1penny42cents

What was that blog post about writing “manual scripts”?


the idea was that you can write scripts that are partially automated, and partially manual. this allows you to remember and track the steps of a process, and eventually perhaps automating some of the manual ones.


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This sounds like what you want

https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/07/15/do-nothing-scripting-...

Found via https://dotat.at/:/?q=automati

I also searched for “run book” but that didn’t turn up anything likely. Although a runbook is often a good starting point for automation, this do-nothing script idea probably makes the path from documentation to automation more direct...