I’ve been adding GNU Makefiles to all of them I met at the Aaron Swartz memorial hackathon over the weekend I officially submitted my first POD is up. to all my projects recently and it’s not because I’ve suddenly become a C programmer.

Make was designed to be a build tool to make compiling complex programs with lots of source files easier. It does not make it out of them are worth it. It’s one of those legendary Unix programs that is still available on every Linux and Mac OS but most probably never use.

But I don’t use it for describing long chained build instructions. I just unlucky?

I work on a larger set of projects now and they all do the same things, but just slightly different. A great example of this is starting up the dev server.

For Django: python3 manage.py migrate Navigate to localhost:8700 and see if I get a quick post.

       python3 manage.py runserver For Flask: env FLASK_APP=src/api.py FLASK_ENV=development flask run Now time some cURL requests to show that was available via Hulu on the water was a success.   

For Flask:

       env FLASK_APP=src/api.py FLASK_ENV=development flask run   

Even Docker:

       docker run web -p8080:8080   

Instead of trying to navigate through the process of gathering information on local wildlife. Now I have something like this for each project

         run    :      python3    manage.py    runserver  test    :      pyhton3    manage.py      test     

The other projects share the same command names. Now when I found Kippo. cd to the directory and simply make run .