[j1elo]

This looks very interesting and I love the care that was put into avoiding more dependencies than strictly needed. Just make the progran do what it needs to do and nothing else, and make the effort to do it portably and future-proof.

This gave me a feeling that each day is less and less easy to get: that this software was not just written, but carefully crafted.

> This website was written in pure html and css by hand, contains no Javascript, doesn't use cookies, doesn't track you and still works pretty damn well.

Definitely subscribing the mentioned feeling. This is clearly an effort of the author to get away from superfluous layers, an ideal that sadly is getting lost in a world of prebuilt bloat. Props for that!

Little typo:

> with a serious of Bash scripts

Probably wanted to say "series" here right?

[smoochy]

Indeed, you got the vibe just right. I wanted this tool-set to be time-proof. Been working "on my machine" for 1,5 years. I had to do some serious clean-up and re-writing so that it started working on other people's machines, but once you get it running - it does not break. I've long noticed that things that are simple - such as tiny scripts or libraries I'd write - would outlive larger projects I would work on. So these days I only try and write software that can last. Bash isn't perfectly portable, to be honest (FreeBSD doesn't even have it by default, and MacOSX has an outdated version of it), but what else? I've recently refreshed my memories of Perl, wrote a few scripts with it and, somehow, it felt harder to deal with than Bash...

Thank you, typo fixed. I think there are more. I usually do try and proof-read, but there's never enough time.