TPM Toothpaste Picking Manager

Let me pick the toothpaste for you

0. Clone repository to ~/tpm and make it

Unix(Ubuntu): make

Windows: nmake.exe /f .\Makefile.msc

1. Define available toothpastes in CSV format file with path ~/tpm/toothpastes see ~/tpm/toothpastes.sample for format details
2. Put TPM in daily crontab or task scheduler task to run it daily(or twice a day)

Windows: schtasks /create /tn "TPM" /tr "C:\Program Files\tpm\tpm.exe" /sc daily /st 09:00

Unix(Ubuntu): crontab -e then add this line: 00 9 * * * /usr/local/bin/tpm

3. Enjoy machine doing it for you

Tiny simple terminal console C program with maximum utility and zero maintenance burden

Sample terminal output from verbose mode:

Good Morning Serenity Welcome to the toothpaste picking manager
Already picked today
Pick type: Default
Toothpaste: >>> SENSODYNE (150g) [100/100] <<< Day: Saturday 20512 Toothpaste index: 1/3
Total picks: 7 Last pick time: 1772266460

Press any key to continue . . .

Sample JSON output:

{
         "who":"Anonymous",
         "toothpaste":"Unknown",
         "tube_mass_g":666,
		 "rating":50
}

Because working with JSON without special library is complicated it outputs only 4 fields JSON

Basically it automatically answers the question "What toothpaste I should use today?" by picking it from predefined available toothpastes linked list using total epoch days mod total available toothpastes as list index I started coding it when found 3 different toothpaste tubes in the bathroom

It supports 8 toothpaste picking methods calling picking types: Default, Random, By index, By Brand, Max rating, Max tube mass, Min rating, Min tube mas

Here is analog sqlite query that do default picking type:

SELECT * FROM toothpastes WHERE id=mod((SELECT CAST(unixepoch('now') / 86400 AS INTEGER)), (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM toothpastes)) LIMIT 1;

Also pick.sql contains other sql queries for different pick methods.

The point is in fact you do not need sqlite postgres or lmdb to perform a single pick and sometimes even the single pick is more than enough

How many sqliters does it take to pick the toothpaste? NULL

Command line options

-a pick toothpaste with highest rating

-w pick toothpaste with highest tube weight

-j output JSON with last pick info instead toothpaste picking string

-v show toothpaste picking manager version

-x perform random toothpaste pick

-q more quiet toothpaste pick

-l list available toothpastes

-r reset total toothpaste picks counter

-o pick_output_file output toothpaste picking string or JSON to text file pick_output_file

-c config_file load custom configuration file config file

-t pick_stats output pick stats to pick_stats file

-s [counter_value] set total toothpaste picks counter

-p [toothpaste_pick_type_value] set toothpaste pick type value

-i [toothpaste_index] pick toothpaste by index

-b [toothpaste_brand] pick toothpaste by brand

-z [delta_hours] set the timezone hours [-11,11] lag manually

-d [delta_days] pick toothpaste with default method in the future or the past

toothpastes_path path to toothpastes CSV file

Configuration file options

Configuration is located in ~/tpm/tpm.conf file It's options:

LOAD_CONFIG loads configuration file tpm.conf from specific path

USERNAME override username

PICK_TYPE set toothpaste pick type [0,7] number for Default, Random, By index, By brand, Max rating, Max tube mass, Min rating, Min tube mas

VERBOSE 0 for quiet toothpaste pick

TOOTHPASTES toothpastes list CSV full file name

LAST_PICK last pick file location

PICK_STATS pick stats file location

LIST_TOOTHPASTES 1 to list available toothpastes

OUTPUT_JSON 1 to output JSON with toothpaste pick

OUTPUT_FILE 1 to output to file ~tpm/last_pick

PICK_INDEX pick toothpaste by this index if PICK_TYPE=2

BRAND pick toothpaste by this brand if PICK_TYPE=3

RESET_COUNTER 1 to reset toothpaste pick counter

SET_COUNTER not 0 to set toothpaste pick counter

TIMEZONE set the timezone hours [-11,11] lag manually

DELTA_DAYS pick toothpaste with default method in the future or the past

TPM Toothpastes Picking Manager Configuration Sample

[CONSTANTS]
LOAD_CONFIG="C:\Users\Anonymous\tpm\tpm.conf"
DEFAULT=0
TRUE=1
FALSE=0
[GENERAL]
USERNAME="Anonymous"
PICK_TYPE=DEFAULT
VERBOSE=TRUE
TOOTHPASTES="C:\Users\Anonymous\tpm\toothpastes"
LAST_PICK="C:\Users\Anonymous\tpm\last_pick"
PICK_STATS="C:\Users\Anonymous\tpm\pickstats"
LIST_TOOTHPASTES=FALSE
OUTPUT_JSON=FALSE
OUTPUT_FILE=FALSE
PICK_INDEX=0
RESET_COUNTER=FALSE
SET_COUNTER=0
BRAND=Unknown
TIMEZONE=0
DELTA_DAYS=0

TPM Toothpastes Picking Manager Files List

~/tpm/toothpastes CSV toothpastes list

~/tpm/tpm.conf TPM configuration file

~/tpm/pickstats toothpaste pick stats binary file

~/tpm/last_pick last toothpaste pick output message string or JSON file `

TPM Toothpastes Picking Manager Toothpastes List CSV format sample

#Index,Brand string,Tube mass grams,Rating
0,Random Toothpaste 1,100,85
1,Random Toothpaste 2,50,90
2,Random Toothpaste 3,150,100
3,Random Toothpaste 4,50,100
4,Nothing,0,0

Sure you can pick anything this way not only toothpastes Food drink clothes gym exercises meds even linux commands moreover you can recursively pick the toothpaste pick type(method) itself but there is no meaning in it

P.S. Do not forget to brush your hard disk with dd and rm -rf / toothpastes twice a day