Tame your pesky little scripts

This blog post started its life as a lightning talk that I'm doing today at Aurajoki Overflow's afterwork. As I worked on the talk, I realised I had a more coherent story to tell than I had already planned so now it gets a new life as a blog post as well. "Pesky little scripts" — a term I stole from Redowan Delowar — are all those shell scripts and fish functions and shell aliases you write to make your own life easier. I don't know about you, but I have quite a few of them and the collection keeps growing. But they can get messy to organise, to remember and to run. Especially when you start to add more than just shell scripts. My collection is a messy amalgamation of bash, zsh, Python, Javascript and Rust scripts. Some of them I use daily, others maybe once every two months. There are a couple of main ideas that have had a big impact on how I manage them and I've noticed that the amount of scripts and aliases I write has grown immensly after I adopted these. Namespacing In PyCon…