Your feeling is shared by many. One way is to curate a set of tools that are your very own. By this I don't mean you build all your tools from scratch. Rather create a mix of "off-the-shelf" open source tools, custom scripts and methodologies that are your very own. You should have deep familiarity with them and improve your tool chain with time.
Keep this tool chain stable over the course of your career and over time you will see your effectiveness and personal velocity improve.
My personal examples:
- I maintain some simple scripts and tools of my own for dealing with AWS deployments and logs.
- I have my own flask app skeleton/scaffold for creating a new web app or web tool from scratch.
- I stick with vi for any kind of text or config editing
- I maintain a bunch of simple bash scripts for common tasks etc...
Keep this tool chain stable over the course of your career and over time you will see your effectiveness and personal velocity improve.
My personal examples:
- I maintain some simple scripts and tools of my own for dealing with AWS deployments and logs.
- I have my own flask app skeleton/scaffold for creating a new web app or web tool from scratch.
- I stick with vi for any kind of text or config editing
- I maintain a bunch of simple bash scripts for common tasks etc...