I find lots of little utilities fit the bill. They are oftentimes sufficiently narrow in scope to be of little use to anyone but the author, but that shouldn't

I find lots of little utilities fit the bill. They are oftentimes sufficiently narrow in scope to be of little use to anyone but the author, but that shouldn't necessarily eliminate their use. For example, here is a Gist with a shell script I wrote that, given a set of Maven coordinates, works with a few other tools to build out a docset for use in Zeal / Dash. https://gist.github.com/michaeljmcd/5564758537946963e946806e2813dfd1 https://gist.github.com/michaeljmcd/5564758537946963e946806e... I had to dig into some corners of Maven I didn't know well to pull it together and it formalized some random bits of minutae. Nothing elegant or crazy, perhaps, but it is a bit of coding apart from the normal day job that taught me a couple of tricks.