Updated: Never — Philip's Blog

Being an extremely lazy sort of person, I often write little scripts to save me some typing and some remembering. Of course, also due to being lazy, these scripts have a tendency to gather dust in my $HOME/bin directory after a while.

A typo today caused me to run a script I wrote about three years ago to run an application remotely where I worked then. The scary thing is that muscle memory typed my username before I remembered that calling that particular script was not what I had intended to do.

I then spent an entertaining couple of hours reading through these ancient scripts, completely forgetting what it was I was going to do in the first place.

This is another cue that I should probably stick my $HOME/bin under Subversion or split it up in some sensible way.

Dear lazyweb: how do you keep track of the millions of scripts and such more that pile up in your home directory?