Posts tagged with "cli"

After years of managing Linux systems - from my Dell Wyse 3040 Proxmox cluster to various VMs and containers - I’ve accumulated a collection of command-line tools that I reach for constantly. These aren’t exotic utilities, but rather the practical tools that help me figure out what’s actually happening when systems misbehave.

Most of these came from those “why is this server slow?” moments where you need to quickly diagnose CPU, memory, storage, or network issues. Here’s what I actually use and why.

I hate time tracking. Seriously. Most time tracking tools require you to remember to start timers, categorize work, and generally interrupt your flow to feed some system that’s probably going to be wrong anyway. But when you’re freelancing or need to report hours on projects, you’re stuck with it.

So I built a Python tool that generates timesheets from git commit history - because your commits are already there, they’re timestamped, and they actually reflect when you were working on stuff.