Creative Coding: Visual Experiments & Information Pipeline

an ongoing coding and research seminar

Simple logging app

This is a basic experiments of a logging app. It takes no argument but one: the text content of the log. The content could use eventually be parsed ansd so we could/should use meta, commands and status in there. The script is executed locally via php.

Further research/experimentations:

1. make it working via Alfred/Albert, CLI and web by analysing the context it's run in, $_GET or $argv. → review url bar logging tool
2. if it was to run on the web, what is the real point? → The main idea here is to have a way to log notes simply from a phone or any devices. what are the alternatives here?

Documentation

Change log

21 Jan

• basic use of .env file to set where the log file is stored; this allows to use SyncThing with the log file. 19 Jan 2022
• logs contain the single and double quotes from the input
• log file is consolidated in one single file
• not a single software can replace self discpline
• adds human-readable date after the timestamp

  Install with Alfred.app

  • create a keyword trigger
  • create a 'Run Script' Action
  • set Language: /bin/zsh
  • insert in Script: /usr/local/bin/php /Users/jeromerigaud/tools/logger/log.php "{query}"
  • link the trigger to the action

    Use from CLI

    php ./log.php I'm also able to invoke the "software" from the command line :+todo fix: there is still an escape error and the single quote gets crushed

    Other issues

  • to make it work in Alfred, I had to swap in the script the relative path for an absolute path
  • in Alfred: ideally I should be able to use /usr/bin/php as the language instead of running it through zsh to reach php.
  • shorter command: use a bash wrapper