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mitchi on June 30, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lazy people innovate

<< Used Autohotkey to automate saving porn images to disk with Google Chrome.

Programmer laziness = You are doing something that annoys you because it's slow so you take a whole day scripting and automating something that accelerates it.

Ofc, didn't take me a day to do that.

frugalfirbolg on July 1, 2012 [–]

lol I have to ask, were you just using mouse-clicks, or did you have it pop open the inspector and pull the images from there? Since you're on Windows, you might want to check out the System.Net.WebClient object in Powershell.

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