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

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...

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.

Upvoted ;)

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.

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!

What kind of work do you do? Does your day job involve writing shell scripts? Or is that something you do on the side?