The sed that didn't stick
A failing nightly backup, a sed hotfix that worked once, and the next morning's cron that failed anyway. Node's require cache had eaten my patch.
A short history of the CLI I built to stop curling IP APIs
It was supposed to be a weekend CLI. Then the name got stolen, the providers started disagreeing with each other, the rate limits hit back, and somewhere along the way the simple tool grew its own self-hosted backend.