Okay, so yesterday I was messing around with something called ‘adam pearce’. I know, sounds kinda random, right?
So, it started when I was trying to, like, automate some stuff. I wanted to see if I could get this script to, basically, do a bunch of things without me having to click a million buttons. You know how it is.
First thing I did was, naturally, Google “adam pearce script”. I found some stuff on GitHub, looked promising. So I cloned this one repo, figured, ‘what the hell, let’s see what this does’.
Then came the fun part: trying to actually run the thing. I swear, half the battle is just figuring out the dependencies. It needed, like, three different versions of Python libraries. So I spent a good hour just pip installing a bunch of crap. Annoying, but gotta do it.
Finally got all the dependencies sorted. Tried running the main script. And BAM! Error message. Of course. Something about a missing API key. Okay, fine. Read the documentation (who am I kidding, skimmed the README), and it turns out I needed to sign up for some service to get this API key. Ugh.
Signed up, got the key, plugged it into the script where it was supposed to go. Ran it again. This time, it actually started doing something! It was, like, spitting out a bunch of text in the terminal. Looked promising, but I had no idea what it was actually doing.
I spent the next few hours just tweaking the script. Trying different parameters, seeing what changed. I broke it a couple of times, had to revert back to older versions. It was a mess, but I was learning.
Eventually, I managed to get it to do almost what I wanted. It still had some quirks, but it was way better than doing everything manually. I even added a few of my own little tweaks to make it work exactly how I needed it.
Here are a few things I learned:
- Reading the documentation (even if you skim it) is actually important. It can save you a lot of time.
- Error messages are your friend. They might look scary, but they usually tell you what’s wrong.
- Don’t be afraid to break things. That’s how you learn. Just make sure you have a backup.
Overall, it was a pretty cool experience. I still don’t fully understand everything that “adam pearce” does, but I learned a lot, and I got a working script out of it. Not bad for a day’s work.
Would I recommend it? If you’re into automating stuff and you don’t mind a little bit of frustration, then yeah, give it a shot. Just be prepared to Google a lot.
