> A clever and witty bash script running on a unix server somewhere is also not utilitarian coding, no human ever directly benefited from it.
Back around 2010, my friend Mat was doing cloud consulting. He wrote some code to screen-scrape the AWS billing and usage page for an account to determine how much had been spent day-over-day. This was, of course, all orchestrated via a bash script that iterated through clients and emailed the results to them (triggered by cron, of course).
He realized he had startup on his hands when something broke and clients started emailing him asking where their email was. Cloudability was born out of that.
I'd say that both the Ruby and bash code involved count as pretty utilitarian despite running on a server and not having a direct user interface.
> A clever and witty bash script running on a unix server somewhere is also not utilitarian coding, no human ever directly benefited from it.
Back around 2010, my friend Mat was doing cloud consulting. He wrote some code to screen-scrape the AWS billing and usage page for an account to determine how much had been spent day-over-day. This was, of course, all orchestrated via a bash script that iterated through clients and emailed the results to them (triggered by cron, of course).
He realized he had startup on his hands when something broke and clients started emailing him asking where their email was. Cloudability was born out of that.
I'd say that both the Ruby and bash code involved count as pretty utilitarian despite running on a server and not having a direct user interface.