Comic Strips

12929 readers

3447 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
The comic must be a complete story.
If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
You may post comics from others or your own.
If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
Politeness.
Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.

Web of links

[email protected]: "I use Arch btw"
[email protected]: memes (you don't say!)

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

lawrence

405

Files [Admiral Wonderboat] (files.mastodon.social)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/comicstrips

28 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Source: https://mastodon.social/@admiralwonderboat/113646163152946611

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] toynbee 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I used to have this problem, but now I go with one of two solutions:

filename-$(date +%F) (or similar)
- example: notes-2024-12-14.txt
- can be expanded to include further time details if more than one iteration per day is released
filename-Mk#
- example: product-design-MkII (Or Mk2 if you prefer)
- pretty much infinitely expandable and you always know which is latest
- admittedly I'm pretty sure most systems wouldn't sort Roman numerals correctly, but I rarely have enough iterations of anything to worry about it

edit: Also, with either, you could pretty easily write a script that would symlink something like filename-latest to the newest one, but depending on how you're generating the files in question, that might be less viable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You know how to script and what a symlink is; why aren't you using git or any other kind of version control instead?

[–] toynbee 2 points 3 days ago

Because I formed these habits in the nineties and 00's, well before git was a thing; and because nothing I write matters, other than possibly to my employers, in which case I do use (primarily) git ... Or other version control. (Believe it or not, I've used subversion.)

Most of the documents to which I apply this are things like my resume and DNS server. No one but me will ever care.

Also, I like you both for asking this question and for how you put it.