It is not so often that I discover hidden gems, defined as those high-quality tools that only had a few hundred stars on GitHub, but are easily worth a few hundred dollars in the good old days when I need to spend actual money for purchasing software as retail boxes.
Rootshell is obviously one of these hidden gems. And since my recent post about it, it has not accumulated too many more stars (making the number of GitHub stars such an unreliable and noisy indicator of quality). It has, nevertheless, added many new features, including a new, custom terminal keyboard.
And today, I have discovered one more such hidden gem: herdr-gpui. The name of this application is uninspiring, but it is very much an evolved and polished variant that replaces Herdr in a drop-in fashion. I enjoyed using it more than herdr — it is a swiss-army knife and an instant “love at first sight.”