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To combat that I've been self-hosting https://github.com/CorentinTh/it-tools which has a lot of overlap with these tools and might provide some ideas. https://github.com/ksdme/ut is a rust CLI with a similar purpose.", "context": "", "use_case": "self-hosted developer utilities", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Prism.Tools \u2013 Free and privacy-focused developer utilities"}]}