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Re:Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself? by svilen_dobrev on Saturday June 12, 2021 @04:58PM (#27487391)
"tell me what tools you've made and i'll tell you who you are." Really.

Probably i make one sw tool per month - whatever annoys me enough to go over the lazyness treshold.

Most of my toys (made last 25+ years) stay at https://github.com/svilendobrev/svd_bin

https://github.com/svilendobrev/svd_util (python stuff)

apart of the bigger ones there with own repos

most used stuff seems:

* shell wrappers/configs to make using terminals a more humane+repeatable thing. A system (="language") of plenty of aliases and shortcut keys, for many combinations of x-terms/shells, so regardless of which one it is, it gets same human interface. Remember 4dos? there. F2 is dir/ls..

* similar thing for vim. F2 for save. ctrl-f for find. etc..

* vcs.sh - similar thing for 5-6 revision control systems

...

* sound files searching/cutting/diffing - searching one record within another - think recognizing start and end signals of some radio show, cutting it out from several alternative recording sessions - e.g. digitized analog vs http/rtmp streams; and diff'ing the results ; the timeline can be warped a lot (Wow and flutter, yes, with some charts out)

* hundreds of others.. some of them i dont remember anymore what they were for :/

have fun

Re:Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself? by themantri on Sunday June 13, 2021 @11:27AM (#27493375)
I'm going to take a few hours out over the next few weekends and go through this. Thank you for sharing!