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by dgfitz 732 days ago
I just… remember the names I give things? Why is this considered a “hack” of some kind?
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It may not be useful to you, but it seems a bit too much to then jump to the conclusion it must be useless for everyone.

I forget names all the time. I even forget I wrote entire projects sometimes. That's why I try to organise my systems in a way I can easily stumble upon things I haven't thought about in months, or years.

I find this article's approach actually solves a problem for me. I do find myself going back to the ~/bin folder once I a while to look for some script I use less often. So at least for N=2, it's a cool hack.

I go to my bin dir and list the files.