Whenever I have a need or annoyance, if I create a tool to solve it, I publish the code, no matter how small the potential audience might be. I have been surprised that the most niche things end being used by one other person, or even two! :)
You can find all my open source projects in Source
Hut and GitHub.
Below I highlight a few I am fond of.
A CLI database client. It uses ODBC for maximum compatibility, and has minimal dependencies.
It includes an Emacs module for sql-interactive-mode.
I use this one all the time, for work stuff.
A CL system, with a command line tool, to control the SteelSeries Apex 7 TKL keyboard. Allows
changing RGB colors and writing text or sending an image to the small LCD.
It also helped me realize how useless the screen was >_> after using it to display errors for
compilation-mode.
I have since moved to a different keyboard, but I have fondness for this thing, as it was one
of my first complete CL solutions.
I became an Emacs user in 2016, and my first package was a tool to work with Team Foundation's
source control: the only thing that kept me anchored to Visual Studio at the time.
I haven't revisited that code (I sincerely hope no one needs it nowadays, TFVC is terrible),
but I am sure it is pretty unidiomatic: it was my first Lisp code :)
I wrote a few other packages since then.
A Transient-based wrapper for dotnet. This was great in my .NET days, and I still
maintain it, although it sees little movement. I assume it works as intended in most
cases.
This package uses the Bamboo API to trigger builds and deploys. When I built it, I became the
team's go-to deploy guy: a few keystrokes and BAM, deploy underway.
I wonder if Panda still works, Bamboo's API had changes between versions. But no one
complained, so it is either unused, or Just Works™️.
I ran out of """clever""" names, apparently. This is a...Confluence reader. Lets you get the
content of a Confluence page in Emacs, rendering an HTML export of it with shr,
the same package that powers EWW.
It also includes basic search, and ability to add bookmarks.
Fastmail offers WebDAV file storage. It can be easily mounted in Gnome (I am told, haven't
tried), but I found no easy way to make it work on Windows, where I spend my work hours. So I
decided to create a little package for it.
The UI is based on
another proto-package that
navigates Azure blob storage using azcli. And the bindings try to be as
Dired-like as possible (^ to go up a level, D to delete, etc.).
I know this one will have changes because of an unfortunate design decision that makes it very
hard to use it interactively with more than one server.