Automated Folder Watching

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I used file watching loops for almost my entire career (professionally and personally). It’s always been a for loop or os.walk or similar (C/C++/Python/SBCL/…), and it was always lots of boilerplate code. Not difficult, just a bunch of lines to maintain and make sure they catch all corner cases.

While setting up this blogging pipeline (thank goodness I can just concentrate on the typing part and deployment happens automagically) I got to learn about gorakhargosh’s watchdog Python library. You should totally check out their GitHub page for the project! It’s a bit dated, but does the job perfectly fine!

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Automated Folder Watching