[rnhmjoj]

I agree: I recently moved my scripts from crontab to systemd timers and there is no going back. Finally I have a proper way to debug and log. Also on NixOS I can have the unit file and timer generated in very few lines. Look at this one for example:

    "xkcd" = {
       description = "send latest xkcd comic"; 
       wants = [ "network.target" ]; 
       startAt = "Mon,Wed,Fri *:0/30"; 
  
       path = with pkgs; [ telegram-cli ];   
       serviceConfig = { 
         User = "rnhmjoj"; 
         Type = "oneshot"; 
         ExecStart = "${cabal}/bin/xkcd"; 
       };
     } // basicEnv;

[eru]

It's a fun example, but for webcomics RSS is probably the better solution than scheduling something on your machine.