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Do you use userscripts or other automation options like autohotkey? Which ones do you find most useful? Could you recommend some good sources(including lemmy communities) that are on the topic?

Not sure if it fits your question, but here is a little tool I use all the time at work.
We have a radio playing, and sometimes I want to know what song is it.
I made a shortcut in Emacs to go to the radio website, find the "currently playing" title, and print it on the screen as well as saving the date/time I did the request into a "history" file for later reference.

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Does anyone here use a functional language in their day jobs?

I use Racket almost daily, but as a tool to helping me do my job (mainly PHP, yerk...).
Racket is so flexible and batteries included I can write small tools/scripts to summary DB data, sort files, filter git changed files and many other small things.
I am currently incorporating more Racket in my workflow for automations and I am preparing reports about the speed benefits for my tasks (comparing with and without tools).
I hope to get good results to show the upper up next year.
I also try to "advocate" Racket to my co-workers that "it can help you get better and faster" by showing some snippets when pair programming.