ESR also goes out of his way to share small stuff likes small tools, that are handy but aren't going to earn kudos.
One I have is a bash script, for simulating RH's chkconfig for init script link management in an rc.d directory, complete with a man page. When I found it in email archive, it was about a month later so I wasn't able to ask him if he wouldn't mind re-writing it in python *wink*
If ESR reads this, then belated thanks for that contribution.