Ask HN: What are some things that you have built for your own personal tooling?

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Post by coldfire » Tue, May 03, 2022, 4:58 AM UTC

I'm currently on that stage of my career where I'm thinking of investing time in automating some of the tasks that I perform frequently during my day job or otherwise. That could be from setting up a fresh laptop to my preference to fetching/opening source in Bitbucket/Github from command line, to recurring shell commands that I execute for work.

Interested to know what tools/software you've built for your own productivity and your tools of choice?

Re: Ask HN: What are some things that you have built for your own personal tooling?

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Post by gigatexal » Tue, May 03, 2022, 5:00 AM UTC

When we were using redshift I built a python script/cli tool to query redshift and export JSON. That’s the only thing that comes to mind of late.

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Post by timoteostewart » Tue, May 03, 2022, 7:52 AM UTC

I like to read articles and blog posts, so I have a workflow where I email myself a web URL and have a scheduled program pull out these URLs, extract the article body text, and convert to mp3.

A version of the program is on GH:

https://github.com/timoteostewart/benson

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Post by karmakaze » Tue, May 03, 2022, 2:22 PM UTC

I used to have personal scripts, programs, etc for my preferences, and various on-the-job tasks. Over time, I cared less and less about personal customization and my work has become less varied that I need so many specialized scripts. Lastly I rarely now install operating systems when I used to fresh-install every version that got released.

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Post by nicbou » Wed, May 04, 2022, 10:10 AM UTC

I wrote a simple script that will launch a project and its dev environment in a single command ("project HomeServer -S").

It's simple, but insanely useful. I use that command many times a day.