Short little scripts and applications I am quite proud of (most available on github, most have videos on youtube): A Python script that would go through a bunch

Short little scripts and applications I am quite proud of (most available on github, most have videos on youtube): A Python script that would go through a bunch of PDFs submitted to a conference and slap on the copyright, current year, and conference name so my wife didn't have to hand-edit the fifty or sixty papers submitted, which regularly happened about 10 times per year before the pandemic. A couple of PowerShell scripts that moves multi-gigabyte files from the computer that generates it to an intermediate server, and then another computer picks those up and puts them on to whatever storage space is available, squeezing them in via a naive backpack algorithm. It shaved about two hours per day off my workload, instead of manually copying files around the network and then monitoring them to make sure they got where they meant to go. A couple of Python scripts that tell a number of SONY video cameras to wake up, pull in the video and audio over USB, verify the files transferred correctly, then erase them from the camera to make space on the SD card. A simple voice-controlled personal assistant that can start & stop multiple video cameras, perform the "mechanical clapper" effect for each scene and take, label the video files, and read out the prompt for the scene about to be shot. A simple C# stopwatch timer for Windows that logs my daily walks via a touch screen computer located near the front door, calculating speed & distance for that walk, total daily time, etc. Hooks in to a couple of security cameras to track me as I walk past the house on my laps, recognize that it is me, and time stamp my passing (by the camera). A simple Python script that pulled a whole bunch of data out of PDFs for a research project. It saved the small research team multiple thousands of dollars that they couldn't get a research grant for, and was able to then save the department multiple tens of thousands of dollars each year from that point onward. I got paid a large pizza (toppings of my choice). And made a couple of friends of some librarians. A home point touch off position script for my CNC. There are dozens more I'm proud of that I am forgetting. These are the kinds of interesting little projects that take an afternoon or an evening and often have a huge impact on quality-of-life.