Quick Utils
Something I’ve always enjoyed is when a tool or widget is surprisingly useful. Almost always, utilities I write are useful for their intended purpose and solve the immediate problem, but then they end up in the elephant graveyard that is 1-starred git repositories.
I think the key is to publish them, accept feedback from your peers on what actually makes it into their technical toolbag, and lean into the ones that get a bit of traction. So we’ve released one of these tools: quick-ssm.
It’s a simple tool that lets you quickly create a new SSM session without having to log in to AWS, look up the instance name, or confirm that the instance is on.
It lets you quickly expose a port to see if a web service is really running.
It lets you see the thing you obviously forgot and need to go fix. There’s something honest about a simple tool and making it available to the world.
