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Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? by parentheses on Friday April 28, 2023 @01:01PM (#35744039)
I'm slightly embarrassed that in terms of building personally relevant things, my proudest (digital) work is always shell scripts I use daily. Most of my personal projects are non-technical meat-space things like building with wood and the like. Here's some that I've open-sourced:

- A git interface using fzf that works pretty nicely and is very composable. https://github.com/bigH/git-fuzzy

- An interactive evaluator, perfect for interactive `sed`, `grep`, `jq`, etc. If properly configured, it'll keep history per command or using whatever key you give it. I find myself using it often with `jq`. https://github.com/bigH/interactively

There are many other shell functions/scripts that are interesting from my `dotfiles`. Particularly interesting snippets for anyone who wants them:

- A recursize `which` that follows symlinks and stops at a real file. https://github.com/bigH/dotfiles/blob/3d48792b4e910d2fc82504...

- A `watch` alternative that runs in the current shell. https://github.com/bigH/dotfiles/blob/3d48792b4e910d2fc82504...

Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? by seanw444 on Friday April 28, 2023 @01:24PM (#35744366)
You accomplish things in real non-computer life? Nerd.

For the downvoters, that's what we call a "joke". I appreciate when I hear from not-terminally-online people on here.

Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? by parentheses on Friday April 28, 2023 @01:37PM (#35744541)
Upvoted ;)
Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? by alin23 on Friday April 28, 2023 @02:46PM (#35745438)
I’m a long time user of git-fuzzy, thank you for that!

I am also grateful to hear about “interactively”, I always had to write some kind of half baked implementation, it’s great to finally have a defacto solution.

Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? by mjbamford on Sunday April 30, 2023 @12:49AM (#35759761)
I've just discovered git-fuzzy - it's fantastic! I missed its announcement on Hacker News some 3 years ago. Thanks for highlighting it in this thread!