Thank you for the inspiration. I'm going to look through this with interest too.

I see somebody else downvoted me: presumably they didn't like my excitement! I appreciate the positivity here.

HN is fickle, it'll revert, faster if you don't mention it.

I have a couple of "proprietary" pipelines that I'd love to replace, and this also gave me an idea.

For instance when I want to publish a screenshot from windows to my fediverse homeserver, I want it to be as few kilobytes as possible, as I've run a homeserver and the storage needs are obnoxious, so I do my part. Windows takes massive screenshots, embarrassing even by windows 95 bitmap screenshot standards. So win+shift+s, crop selection, win - ms <enter>, shift+insert, ctrl+shift+x, file->save as JPEG, name, enter.

As few as three years ago if I cropped right I could paste the clipboard JPEG and all was well. It doesn't take me long but every time I do it I get three more grey hairs. And I take a lot of screenshots. 2,209 in my screenshot folder. did you know windows saves all your screenshots? they used to be ephemeral.

anyhow i have a bunch of screwy things similar to but not as "simple" as that example. Audio work, text work, data manipulation.

You are welcome. If you want to try this system, I will be glad to help onboarding.