THthomashabets2·Sep 12, 2022
Partly the reason I wrote and use this command line client for GMail: https://github.com/ThomasHabets/cmdg
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5 sourcesPlenty.
Of the ones I use every day:
* Parallel downloader (https://github.com/ThomasHabets/rslurp)
* Email client (https://github.com/ThomasHabets/cmdg)
* sudo replacement with phone auth: https://github.com/ThomasHabets/sim
* Custom frontend to youtube: https://github.com/ThomasHabets/yurate
* Scan-to-google-drive (https://github.com/ThomasHabets/autoscan)
* My own RSS reader (not published. It will never be end-user friendly enough to compete with other ones. But it's better for me)
And then plenty more than I use occasionally, and some I no longer use. E.g. for a while I used my own SSH replacement, in order to get TPM-backed keys (https://github.com/ThomasHabets/tlssh). Nowadays I use yubikey instead (https://blog.habets.se/2016/01/Yubikey-4-for-SSH-with-physic...).
Those are just the main ones (as in not small, and used every day),
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and ones that fit what I assume your criteria: ones with no expectation of users other than me. I find myself fixing problems all the time by writing code.
A curious question. Aside from my day job, this seems like a thing I do all day. :-)
I'm not sure what the motivation for your question is. Do you feel like everything's been invented and built already, and it's just a matter of (at most) plugging the things together?
I find myself constantly thinking "this should exist". I don't have time to make them all exist.
https://github.com/ThomasHabets/arping
Nothing like it existed at the time, and I wanted to send ARP requests as easily as sending ICMP ping.
https://github.com/ThomasHabets/simple-tpm-pk11
I wanted to use a TPM chip for SSH client keys, and couldn't find anything like it.
https://github.com/ThomasHabets/tlssh
I wanted to explore what it would be like to have SSH, but with identities not based on providing username, but an x509 cert. (and TPM chip protecting the key)
Also became
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a fun learning experience about terminals.
https://github.com/ThomasHabets/cmdg
I wanted to use GMail from a fast cli that used the native gmail API.
https://github.com/ThomasHabets/rslurp
I wanted to download concurrently and according to patterns. Ok, so honestly this one probably exists somewhere in a form that I would like, but I couldn't find it.
https://github.com/ThomasHabets/sim
I wanted multi-party authorization for sudo, and couldn't find one.
https://github.com/ThomasHabets/monotonic_clock
People kept using gettimeofday, so this is part of my compaign against it. (see https://blog.habets.se/2010/09/gettimeofday-should-never-be-...)
https://github.com/ThomasHabets/gtping
I worked in mobile core networks, and wanted a "ping" that used the GTP protocol since that won't be firewalled.
https://github.com/ThomasHabets/ind
I wanted my bash scripts to have automatic indentation, while not sacrificing buffering latency and such.
https://github.com/ThomasHabets/tlscheck
I wanted a simple tool to audit my TLS certificates for expiry.
https://github.com/google/huproxy
I was travelling to China on vacation and wanted a VPN out that would be unlikely to be blocked by the great firewall. Ok, so there are many VPN-like tools for getting through the GFW. Maybe it was just an excuse for me to write it. Honestly ssh -D would have likely worked just fine. It's being used by the keymaster project now though, so maybe it did something right: https://github.com/Cloud-Foundations/keymaster/blob/master/d...
https://github.com/google/tcpauth
I wanted to lock down SSH to anyone who doesn't have a secret key (and portknocking is usually ridiculous). Why not use TCP MD5 for it? https://github.com/google/tcpauth
(MD5 is actually safe to use in this mode. It's not broken for all use cases)
No firewall needed, and the TCP port is simply not open for anyone without the key.
That's what I can think of right now, after filtering the less interesting ones.
I built a pine-like mail client that uses the GMail API: https://github.com/ThomasHabets/cmdg
I'm not saying it's perfect, but it's what I've used to read and write email every day for the last year or two, so it's past that point.
Patches welcome. :-)
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