Documenting progress

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I spend a lot of time working on automating various little tasks in my life. Research workflows and various parts thereof, administration of personal and work computers, generation of examples for my students, … the list goes on. In doing so, I’ve learned a thing or two (especially about odd gotchas and corner cases in the world of software [development]) and written some code to help with the more tedious, error-prone parts of the job. And that’s what I’d like to share here: the work, the thoughts and the experience.