themantri

What tools have you built to scratch an itch or quell a regular annoyance? They can be anything from a full blown application to a few commands stringed together.

Thank you.

I am looking for tools that you might have built to scratch an itch or quell a regular annoyance. My main motivation for asking is to looking a different things people may have built and a secondary motivation is to learn how they went about it. I'm also interested in tools which are small scripts or a bunch of commands piped into one another that have boosted your quality of life.

Thank you.

Elaborating, what are some problems that were being experienced by one industry or domain but were solved elsewhere and were adopted by the industry plagued by the problem? Even better if the answer was really obvious for the people who solved it or solving it involved cross-domain knowledge.

For context, I recently heard having a breadth of knowledge (along with depth in chosen areas) is really helpful in problem solving and I'm looking for concrete examples for the same.

Saw the question asked about 9 months ago and without much traction. Previously asked about three years ago and has had a bunch of responses.

My reading list:

1. A Briefer History of Time

2. Serious Cryptography

3. Lifshitz & Landau's Fluid Mechanics

4. Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets

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