Love systemd timers(blog.tjll.net)
359 points by yacin | 229 comments
A blog post on Tyblog arguing that systemd timers are underappreciated and explaining how to use them for scheduling tasks on Linux.
#cron on Hacker News
3 stories tagged cron, newest first.
A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs(geoffreylitt.com)
722 points by stevekrouse | 159 comments
Geoffrey Litt's blog post describing Stevens, a family AI assistant built with one SQLite memories table and cron jobs hosted on Val.town.
Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat(rachelbythebay.com)
568 points by l0b0 | 356 comments
Blog post by Rachel Kroll about periodically dumping and diffing a company LDAP directory to track which employees have left.