Creating Obsidian tables of content
Generating tables of contents directly in Obsidian Markdown notes with an external script and scheduled updates.
Bash
Bash variable scope and pipelines
Why variables changed inside a Bash pipeline may remain unchanged outside it, and how the lastpipe option alters that behaviour.
Automating the handling of bank and financial statements
A Hazel workflow that extracts text from financial-statement PDFs, renames them consistently, and imports them into DEVONthink with tags.
Converting Cyrillic UTF-8 text encoded as Latin-1
Diagnosing and repairing garbled Cyrillic filenames from Forvo by inspecting character codes and correcting their encoding.
accentchar: a command-line utility to apply Russian stress marks
A small command-line tool for placing a Russian stress mark at a specified character position, with argument and pipeline input.
sterilize-ng: a command-line URL sterilizer
Introducing sterilize-ng, a composable command-line tool for stripping tracking information from URLs.
Extracting ID3 tags from the command line - two methods
Command-line methods for extracting an MP3’s ID3 title using ffprobe or id3info with text-processing tools.
Partitioning a large directory into subdirectories by size
A macOS shell script for dividing a large directory into size-limited subdirectories for optical-disc archiving.