i have a bunch of archived projects and I have NO recollection of writing them despite them being complex

😖

trying to find a script I knew I had and I don't even know where it is. goddammit

*goes on a deleting spree*

I hate organizing random stuff. my OCD inclinations scream at me but I never enjoy organization. why can't it all just self organize

I also want a search feature for all my old repos. grrrrr

this just feels like such a disaster. I made a git backup script for my external HDD but I don't think that script backed up the archived projects... of which there's evidently 6 damned pages. why do we produce so much code. how

Are they any good?

I keep finding stuff I'd forgotten I wrote, and if I did it better then than I would do it now that makes me feel old.

I wonder if AI could assess and organize files/projects based upon the context of the code it reads.

@Demolishun I have an auto format AI script that brands the retoor brand in files and it also add functionality description in files. It's not an bad idea at all to let crawl AI trough all your projects, describe everything and make a fulltext search based on that descriptions. Yeah, for sure you can organize using AI. Especially if you would define some categories up front so you could even put it in a database having relations and stuff. Vet good idea. Only thing is - while AI is El cheapo, scanning all your sources will cost a dime. Several reasons but I only have 400 chars to type left :p

there's a bunch of things in there I don't wanna delete because they were being used by repos that I still wanna have archived

don't make too many repos, guiizzz

before realizing rust's workspace feature I was even making too many repos in rust. workspaces rule. very nice.

@jestdotty I have a "kinda stupid but it works" for finding bits for text based files.

Like you I have way to many projects, and finding the thing I know I have but don't remember exactly where was beginning to happen way to often.

I use Helix editor, and they have build a really good fuzzy finder platform for file names and content of files, [space + /] for finding things inside files [space + f] for finding files by name.

All you need to do is open helix in your projects directory so it can index all files and that's it, you get a list of files and a preview, and most of the time I can recall enough information to fuzzy find my way in seconds, it's great because it requires no effort in labeling things ahead of time - I suck at that.

It has a learning curve if you are not coming from Vim or other similar editors, it's a really good editor, but even if you just use it for finding files it's a really useful tool

WinUI has limitations, such as requiring store integration to share your tool.

So, WinForms is preferred by some! (Me writing a very custom app for myself and 1 friend. Total market cap : 2 people)

Fun fact after a couple of hours of searching:

You *can* modify the status bar of an app,

you just need to import DLLs you may not have heard of before.

[DllImport("dwmapi.dll")]

private static extern int DwmSetWindowAttribute(IntPtr hwnd, int attr, ref int attrValue, int attrSize);

private const int DWMWA_USE_IMMERSIVE_DARK_MODE = 20;

private const int DWMWA_MICA_EFFECT = 1029;

Never heard about this DLL before in my life.

WinUI has limitations, such as requiring store integration to share your tool.

So, WinForms is preferred by some! (Me writing a very custom app for myself and 1 friend. Total market cap : 2 people)

Fun fact after a couple of hours of searching:

You *can* modify the status bar of an app,

you just need to import DLLs you may not have heard of before.

[DllImport("dwmapi.dll")]

private static extern int DwmSetWindowAttribute(IntPtr hwnd, int attr, ref int attrValue, int attrSize);

private const int DWMWA_USE_IMMERSIVE_DARK_MODE = 20;

private const int DWMWA_MICA_EFFECT = 1029;

Never heard about this DLL before in my life.