[efunneko]

For my whole career (almost 25 years now) I have loved automating tasks. Early in my career I really struggled with the balance of how much to devote to automation vs just trying to get the job done fast.

One thing that helped me was to invest in building simple libraries and tools that I would commonly use to make the automation faster. One such one was a script (called super-script) that would build the skeleton of another script, prompting for all the command-line parameters that I needed for the script and including all the command-line code that would convert the parameters into an easy to access data structure. This script would also prompt for help text for the params and create code to print that out when `--help` was fed into the output script.

This did two things:

  1. made the new script easier to write

  2. made the new script *MUCH* easier to share

By getting #2, the payback for automation was way way faster. It might take a year for payback if only I used my script, but it might take only days if 30 or 40 of my colleagues also used it.

[Donckele]

I do that to. My script is called “docker_genesis.sh” - can you figure out what it does?