Often enough, when I see something like this, the real value isn't the software itself, but the idea that perhaps the issue it addresses is worth thinking about

Often enough, when I see something like this, the real value isn't the software itself, but the idea that perhaps the issue it addresses is worth thinking about a bit more. The solution itself may be trivial, but have a large impact. E.g. I have created [0] the simplest of scripts for managing updates for manually-installed / source-compiled applications (something I've dubbed "misc", very proud of this backronym :p). The script itself is extremely simple (just a list of greps over latest release announcement urls), but it has solved a big problem for me, of helping me keep such "misc" items seamlessly up-to-date. [0]: https://github.com/tpapastylianou/misc-updater https://github.com/tpapastylianou/misc-updater