Small tools I wrote this year
A list, in no particular order, of small things I built in 2025 that I still use:
A shell script that opens today’s journal file, creating it if it doesn’t exist. 14 lines. I run it more often than any IDE.
A Python script that reads my Kindle highlights and posts a random one to a static page on this site. Almost nobody reads that page, including me. But the highlights are still alive somewhere.
A Hugo shortcode that turns {{< footnote >}} into a sidenote on wide screens and a regular footnote on narrow ones. Took an afternoon, has saved me dozens of CSS arguments with myself.
None of these are interesting. That is approximately the point.