Andy Bochmann is an independent developer who focuses on small, single-purpose utilities that streamline everyday coding chores. His catalog is currently anchored by DevKill, a lightweight command-line tool that scans the local system for development-server processes left behind after crashes or abrupt terminal closures, then terminates the orphaned listeners so the reclaimed ports can be reused immediately. Typical use cases include front-end developers who restart Node, React, Angular or Vite servers dozens of times per day, back-end engineers juggling multiple Dockerized micro-services on overlapping ports, and CI runners that must guarantee a clean slate before each test suite. By automating what would otherwise be a manual trawl through `lsof`, `netstat` or Task Manager, the utility fits naturally into pre-build scripts, IDE task runners, and Git hooks. Although the present portfolio is narrow, the publisher’s open-source approach on GitHub invites community contributions and hints at future micro-tools aimed at similar developer friction points. Andy Bochmann’s software is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always install the latest upstream release, and can be queued for batch installation alongside other applications.
Find and kill orphaned dev server processes hogging your ports.
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