Worth Building(armstr.ng)
52 points by colinarms | 38 comments
A personal blog essay on how LLMs make it worthwhile to build small personal tools that previously wouldn't justify the effort.
#personal-software on Hacker News
4 stories tagged personal-software, newest first.
Devtools must be open source(blog.exe.dev)
695 points by bryanmikaelian | 227 comments
Blog post by David Crawshaw on exe.dev arguing that developer tools must be open source, starting from how engineers rarely wrote software for themselves.
An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)(robinsloan.com)
962 points by distcs | 276 comments
Robin Sloan's essay about building BoopSnoop, a tiny messaging app made only for his family, framing personal software as a home-cooked meal.
Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
1843 points by l2silver | 1695 comments
Ask HN thread inviting users to share interesting software or hardware they built solely for personal use, such as custom AR tools or family calendar displays.