I would like to know what your hoppy coding project are. It doesn’t really have to serve a purpose, but what are you coding on in your free time that just is fun to you and you enjoy working on?
As a background: I am an experienced programmer and do earn my money with it. In my free time I always enjoyed trying out new stuff related to technology, learn new things and improve my skills by doing so. But lately I recognise that I just have no clue what I should do or what a fun toy project I could work on. I really have no ideas. My head just feels completely empty whenever I open my IDE.
So please, tell me what you are coding on for fun.
Ah, probably shouldn’t have abbreviated there. “OS automation” meaning “operating system automation”, as in scripted deployment and configuration of software, similar to Ansible, Puppet, Saltstack etc…
I’ve mostly been frustrated with how relatively little assistance these tools give you. Your IDE obviously won’t tell you what values can be put into a given configuration slot, nor will it auto-complete the right values, if everything is written in goshdarn YAML.
And so, this has mostly been an exercise in creating such a framework in a strongly-typed language, with lots of compile-checks, and which allows you to quickly define own task (in the same language, you use to configure tasks).
Gotcha. I read it as “Open Source”. I’m deep in industrial automation and it’s rare to find a kindred spirit.