PhiroNoDot
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No roast intended; backend devs are why things work; frontend devs just make it pretty haha
May 10, 2024 5:06 PM
PhiroNoDot
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Regeny
Which frontend? You get a CLI application with optargs and/or a JSON config file.
DanielAsparagus
Is this a UI design joke? Idk what things are.
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
Pretty is great - but for some applications it just gets in the way of efficiency. Sometimes it can be more efficient, even if the interface seems straight up unintuitive - but once you get to know it, you can do the work faster and easier. Only downside is it often requires practice and/or training, so "bad" UIs are often most useful for professional/industrial applications, not for home users.
Elrohn
But it isn't pretty.
Fuck you and your pretty. Functional you sun of a bitch!
But if it isn't pretty people won't use it.
Ever hear of WinZip.mother fucker? That shit was simple ugly and people used it for years. The moment they got all cute with the overgrown Crayola look people stopped using it.
Frenchgeek
Know your audience. 'Pretty' is expensive.
emptyTcup
I recognized that program from the thumbnail image in usersub. Great program, overcrowded user interface.
Baggsy13
What was in the technical spec?
IAintAfraidONoGhost
nah, a backend dev would write a single regex for this task
DontAskMeAboutMyUsernameOkay
As someone who made their own "bulk renamer" - a single regex won't cover every use case. I've had to add more options as time went on because some people have different naming structures than others.
IAintAfraidONoGhost
I know, might have exaggerated a little bit.
TheOneTrueZippy8
I don't need "pretty". I need functionality. This has it. I can learn how to make it work.
Great little program to have tucked away as a PortableApp. Gets stuff done.
PaperinoVB
Used it years ago to rename recursively many hundred thousand files in a set of almost 30.000 folders, with a complex renaming pattern. Did its work without a problem.
Illiasa
This program was a really nice program for working out some pretty insane conditional file naming. I used it mostly to test out patterns then would convert that into JSON/XML and use Python or Powershell to automate.
Mikataki
I've never used it, but I don't think it would suffer from a 'full' and 'light' mode, the latter for those unfamiliar.