Hey HN Community,<p>What are some of your favorite/most useful hacking tools you've picked up over the years? I mean "hacking" a little less in the computer security sense and a little more in the creative problem solving sense. But I'll be happy with either.<p>For example, about a year ago I learned how to use charles proxy with a self signed ssl cert to view all the network activity coming in and out my phone and computer. This was awesome because then I could make api calls directly to whatever I wanted.<p>Previous to that I'd learned how to decompile and recompile android APK's. One of the funner projects I've done in a while was decompiling an app, installing my own ssl cert (via the android manifest), recompiling and looking at the network traffic directly using the proxy.<p>I want to learn more things like this. What are some tools/tricks you've picked up over the years where you sat back and thought "Woah... that was cool"?
Being more conscientious.<p>It's discipline by another word.<p>Valuing the long term over the short term. Surprisingly, not procrastinating and doing the hard thing sooner than later pays off huge dividends. I don't know why I spent decades chasing ephemeral pleasures that went nowhere and left me with not much at all over a daily "chop wood carry water" of concerted effort (even if it seemed like a mind numbing chore).
Scraping.<p>A friend with some serious restaurant money wanted to get into a restaurant that was sold out after 1 second. Every 3 months nee reservations came up and he clicked as fast as possible.<p>I got the job done with Selenium. He invited me to come along on the spot.<p>It was an amazing culinary experience!