asyncron/readme.md

Asyncron™

a synchronized checklist verification
(lightweight Dead Man's Snitch alternative)

Premise

1. Give an interval on how often some task must be accomplished, and pinged
2. Check periodically

Screenshot

Installation

• put on a local network, or some subdomain prob
• script only needs read+write access to the current directory, to keep track of tasks and pings
• no database needed
• no javascript needed

Usage

1. open script's url (eg. http://ping.local) and create some tasks
2. automate verification of accomplishments (like cron scripts)
3. for manual completion – click on the task and press the «Ping Manually» button

shell scripts and crontab

crontab -l

15 10 * * *  ~/backup.sh  &&  curl -X PATCH 'http://ping.local/?backup'

http API

• GET – returns 1 if task was pinged and interval has not yet expired, otherwise 0
• POST – create/reactivate task
• PUT – update description and/or interval
• PATCH – ping a completion
• DELETE – deactivate task

more details in the source code