My github is littered with software I built as tools in the moment for myself.
The coolest thing in my opinion was [1] pacman-backup, which is a small (hacky) nodejs script to be able to download packages on one machine and be able to use pacman on another airgapped machine with the downloaded packages.
A couple months after I took down the repository I received a letter from the US where someone was asking me whether the repo is still maintained and whether or not it still works. As it turns out, the people of Cuba use Archlinux, too, and they used my tool to use flash drives to share updates.
I still think this is the coolest little tool I ever built, and I probably have to rewrite it in a more sane language (maybe go?) at some point.
The coolest thing in my opinion was [1] pacman-backup, which is a small (hacky) nodejs script to be able to download packages on one machine and be able to use pacman on another airgapped machine with the downloaded packages.
A couple months after I took down the repository I received a letter from the US where someone was asking me whether the repo is still maintained and whether or not it still works. As it turns out, the people of Cuba use Archlinux, too, and they used my tool to use flash drives to share updates.
I still think this is the coolest little tool I ever built, and I probably have to rewrite it in a more sane language (maybe go?) at some point.
[1] https://github.com/cookiengineer/pacman-backup