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Show HN: ut – Rust based CLI utilities for devs and IT

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170 points ksdme9 | 2 comments | 05 Oct 25 17:36 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Hey HN,

I find myself reaching for tools like it-tools.tech or other random sites every now and then during development or debugging. So, I built a toolkit with a sane and simple CLI interface for most of those tools.

For the curious and lazy, at the moment, ut has tools for,

- Encoding: base64 (encode, decode), url (encode, decode)

- Hashing: md5, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512

- Data Generation: uuid (v1, v3, v4, v5), token, lorem, random

- Text Processing: case (lower, upper, camel, title, constant, header, sentence, snake), pretty-print, diff

- Development Tools: calc, json (builder), regex, datetime

- Web & Network: http (status), serve, qr

- Color & Design: color (convert)

- Reference: unicode

For full disclosure, parts of the toolkit were built with Claude Code (I wanted to use this as an opportunity to play with it more). Feel free to open feature requests and/or contribute.

1. klardotsh ◴[06 Oct 25 01:56 UTC] No.45486933[source]▶
Thanks for disclosing your use of GenAI, that kind of transparency is nice to see up front. On that note though, I took a random example (`calc.rs`) and noticed there was no unit or integration testing validating the parsers or etc. did what was expected of them, or that the end results were correct. Are tests for these tools planned? I get sketched out a bit when I see GenAI code with no automated validations, but I really want to like this tool because it fills such an interesting niche :)
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2. ksdme9 ◴[06 Oct 25 06:45 UTC] No.45488316[source]▶
Hey, yeah, fair concern. Some tools already have tests, but, I do plan on adding it to all of them.