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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

1901 points l2silver | 1 comments | 27 Apr 23 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.505s | source

Maybe you've created your own AR program for wearables that shows the definition of a word when you highlight it IRL, or you've built a personal calendar app for your family to display on a monitor in the kitchen. Whatever it is, I'd love to hear it.
1. motohagiography ◴[28 Apr 23 16:55 UTC] No.35743945[source]▶
Re-implemnted a version of the old unix `who`, `last`, and `finger` command line tools that works across most of the whole infra of the company I work for. Planning to add more APIs for it for different systems to aggregate up into it. (AD, EDRs, Splunk, etc.)

I was a sysadmin for a dialup ISPs with a shell server in the mid 90's and people today have no idea how good we had it back then. An entire userbase accessible from a single shell prompt and a few commands instead of todays gamified web UXs with 3D graphics. Security was terrible back then, but the UX was calm, so I re-built that experience over everything.