Software Engineer Toolbox

Everyone who had done any sort of work in their home has a toolbox. You know, a box, mostly disorganised, contains several dozen “backup” screws, a handful of allen wrenches and a screwdriver set.

Working a little bit on any software can very quickly become a game of whack-a-mole - switching between tabs with “unix timestamp to ISO UTC converter”, “CIDR calculator”, “IP Lookup” tools.

How much time does it actually take to learn any of those individual things? Maybe a day or two, or it’s just a tedious calculation no one conscious will do by hand.

Why don’t we have that kind of toolbox?

Something on the command-line and local just in case the office wifi has issues.

It can also help to add functionality we constantly miss from those tools because of “our use case”.

Maybe the next project doesn’t have to be another “pomo-todo-ro”, maybe by writing an extremely small and simple little CLI tool that saves maybe 10 seconds per day for anyone using it (or even just you).