20+ years ago I needed an invoicing program. So I wrote one Perl because I wanted to be cross-platform and I wanted to learn Perl. I ported it to Python last year. The program is dumb as a rock, but almost as stable.
I also wrote a super-simple backup script (python) that backs up my filesystem the way I want. It has a TCL/TK front end with data-driven actions (button, source and destination). It's 'manual', but my external drives are air-gapped. It writes a report with various statistics.
The way these things boost the quality of my life is that backups and invoicing are "mission-critical operations". In the event of a disaster, I could port these operations to any computer with a thumb drive. The only thing I need to install is an interpreter. My backup machine (if I even need one) can have a different OS.
I also wrote a super-simple backup script (python) that backs up my filesystem the way I want. It has a TCL/TK front end with data-driven actions (button, source and destination). It's 'manual', but my external drives are air-gapped. It writes a report with various statistics.
The way these things boost the quality of my life is that backups and invoicing are "mission-critical operations". In the event of a disaster, I could port these operations to any computer with a thumb drive. The only thing I need to install is an interpreter. My backup machine (if I even need one) can have a different OS.