POTA/Parks on the Air, an activity program for outdoor amateur radio operation, allows special treatment of contacts from Multiple park references and Park-to-Park Contacts. If you use the adif field POTA_REF and/or activate from multiple references there is a small perl script to process the adif file before the upload to POTA.

Changing CAT control settings for different TRX or TRX connection types in every program is annoying.
Thanks to rigctld from Hamlib the CAT connection can be unified.
Here is an example for connecting the IC-705 via USB and network.

Choosing the right audio interface can be cumbersome and prone to error.
Creating special devices can help to find the right audio source/sink and prevent e. g. sending “ding” sounds over the air.