Sometimes a tool just doesn’t quite work for you in how it was designed to be used. What sort of things have you done and with that tool to get around this?
I stopped using it!
If I have to use it (company or team or client obligation or just I know it is a relevant tool) I try to improve it (I had some issues with jenkins pipeline so I did some improvement) or I ask for improvement/help to my team/company/the community and when I like the tool I create them a bug report (or a feature request) 
Have you ever hacked together a couple of tools to create something unexpected? If so, what was it and what happened?
I used code injector (Code Injector – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)) to put a color over elements without IDs.
What interesting shorcut hacks help improve your use of a tool?
Ctrl+C Ctrl+X Ctrl+V Ctrl+Z Ctrl+Y Ctrl+S…
On Jira I used a lot of shortcuts Using Keyboard Shortcuts | Atlassian Support | Atlassian Documentation.