My dad, who is constantly bored, is a talented home improvement hobbyist craftsman. Can fix up pretty much anything. He has #ADHD, keeps asking me to remind him to do stuff, he keeps not doing it, months pass.
I've now set up a cron job that calls a homemade Python script (that I'd update over SFTP) to put one task in front of him at all times on his #GNOME computer, using this #GNOMEShell extension:
extensions.gnome.org/extension…
I don't know whether that makes me a chaotic good or lawful evil son.
Federico Mena Quintero
in reply to Jeff Fortin T. • • •James Just James
in reply to Federico Mena Quintero • • •@federicomena Hilarious! A long time ago I got annoyed at @johnmark not completing things that I was waiting for, so I wrote a quick IRC bot that would remind him any time he spoke up in channel.
github.com/purpleidea/jmwbot/
I recall he mostly got to those things pretty quickly after I deployed this.
GitHub - purpleidea/jmwbot: JMWBot (the alter-ego irc bot of johnmark)
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