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2026-05-13,
of scripts and utility

Valerian, Wednesday, 13 May 12026 HE
2026-05-13 | 26E13 | 2026-133 | 2461174
2026-W20-3 | Q2 | Verano

stone chimney, San José, California

2013-08-25 – Olympus PEN E-PL1
stone chimney, San José, California

Proclaimers – “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” ↗

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I’ve been working my way through Pascal and Lua recently – and I have a small pile of shell scripts, many of which are just acting as cleaner frontends to other Linux programs – I could reimplement them in Lua (and a couple might be good candidates for Pascal) – but then I already have working shell scripts – but then, even for scripting, Lua uses less resources than shell – yes, the Pascal versions would run faster – but again, I generally only run the scripts once a day – the slowest script I have is not slow because of processing speed, it’s slow because it has to wait on grabbing an XML file from OpenWeather

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