vlion - a pursuit of the ineffable

peoppenheimer mentioned to me the other day the flashbake script set.

I looked at it, and it seems nifty enough, but I noticed a few things I didn't like about it.

1. social-media-integrated. I'm not a Blogger. I don't want to tweet about what I'm doing all the time(side note: who cares? twitter seems mostly useful for server admins and pr people).

2. git. I far prefer Mercurial. There's a couple reasons, but it primarily comes down to Mercurial having a more user-friendly ethos.

3. different kind of writer orientation. I don't think I really do the kind of writing flashbake is designed around. I'm doing academic work, with latex & stuff. Massive intermediate file output and so forth.

4. I can set this up to work for non-writing systems; arbitrary timely upload of source code sounds nice.

So I hacked up a Perl version of flashbake I call flapper; I'll test it out tomorrow and get it live. I'll put it on bitbucket for use by others once it works on my OSX install.

It should be a really simple script that's trivial to install on a *nix machine; windows machines *may* have more issues, not sure yet.

thank you and good night!