!rant

~/bin is surprisingly useful

Well, duh!😁
Even though I prefer ~/BIN, since I always name my important directories in all-casps.

~/Apps/bin

I use ~/Apps as configure prefix or as target directory for unpacking software

It's the most common way to add custom binaries to your own path on non-root shells provided with services such as seedboxes :)

No shit 😁

although I do have:
~/scripts
~/bin
vim ~/scripts/aaa.sh
cp -rp ~/scripts/aaa.sh ~/bin/
chmod u+x ~/scripts/aaa.sh

this way you can build scripts w/o accidentaly calling them from your PATH. And have scripts' plugins you don't want to trash PATH with.