u/Zynbab

Over the years I’ve had simple scripts evolve into some of the most important items on my server. Tools so deeply woven into my daily life/workflow that I can barely imagine my environment without them.

They also tend to become sprawling, undocumented monstrosities that no one else could reasonably be expected to audit, maintain, or even understand... Yes, they may be held together with digital duct tape, but they fit my needs perfectly.

This got me thinking... I bet some of the coolest software in the world exists on a single machine, built for one person, solving one oddly specific problem. We'll probably never hear about it, and it'll die with its creator.

I want to give that guy a chance to brag, so...

What's that thing or process you've created? What problem does it solve, and why will it never make it into a public code repo?

Edit:

This thread is so much fun I made /r/BuiltForOne/ - no pressure but lemme see some of these things they sound sick

One of my favorite pastimes is re-watching my games on Aoe2insights (just a fan, no affiliation).

If you've ever used it, you may already know that one of the coolest features of it is that it shows you all the chats that happened during the game. Amongst the enemy players, back and forth with your teammate, etc.

I've played many games where my my tm spoke a different language than me, and I almost always go back and punch whatever they were saying into translate.

This is how I've learned what "Crea un mercado!!!!!" means (Create a market!!!).

Anyways, the chats have no way of being copy-pasted into translate so the process is super slow.

So I made a userscript that shows all chats and tries its best to translate them for you all at once.

so this:

https://i.imgur.com/Qe22mu0.png

Becomes this:

https://i.imgur.com/6EIPouX.png

I also added some filtering rules that lets you show, for example, only chats sent amongst the enemy.

I've been using it for a few weeks now and it's pretty fun.

It's open source, and completely free (like speech) to do whatever you want with it.

I get nothing out of it, just thought I'd throw it up online and share it. I'll tag this as self-promotion but I've never shared anything like this on Reddit and gain nothing so I hope I'm doing this in a chill way.

It only does incoming languages -> English for now but I'm not even sure if anyone else does anything like this or if I'm just obsessed.

Anyways check it out if you wanna:

https://github.com/LatentNotions/aoe2insights-chat-replay

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What’s the coolest tool you’ve built that will likely remain private forever? What does it do?

AoE2insight users: Here's a userscript that shows you all the chats from your games and translates them so you can see what your teammate was trying to tell you.