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This writeup is a placeholder. Typer is one of my side projects and the details below are invented while I write up the real story. Typer is a small tool I built to make a task I do often less tedious.
The problem
Before Typer I was repeating the same steps by hand, over and over. It worked, but it was slow and easy to get wrong on a bad day.
The friction showed up as:
- Manual repetition of something that never really changed
- Tools that solved part of the job but left the annoying half to me
What it actually does
Typer takes the repetitive work and does it for you. You give it a bit of input, and it hands back the result you were going to type out anyway.
The main features:
| Feature | What it gives you |
|---|---|
| Automation | The repeated steps happen on their own |
| Simple input | You describe what you want in a compact form |
| Fast output | The result comes back quickly |
Who it’s for
Typer is mostly for people who hit the same repetitive task I did. If that sounds familiar, it might help. If your work is more varied, it probably will not fit, and that is fine.
A rough sense of the shape of it:
const result = typer.run(input)Why it exists at all
Other tools get close. Typer is different because I made one opinionated choice about how it should behave and stuck with it. That choice cost me some flexibility, but it is the part I would defend.
Where it stands today: still a personal project that I keep coming back to.