These repositories are fun side-projects worked on in my spare time to stave off boredom.

If you find any of them useful, please let me know. You can find me on linkedin

• Templating systems (Jinja2 and those built to emulate it)
• Tooling (Parameterizing/formalizing the jank)
• Configuration Management (Primarily Ansible)
• Backend (Django, FastAPI, or Flask. In no particular order.)
• Tinkering with digital electronics and 8 bit computers

A non-exhaustive list of my strong opinions, with context:

• Markup language preference. In order of least to most painful.
  • YAML. I don't care if it says it's not a 'markup language'.
  • TOML. A close second, better than YAML in certain cases.
  • ... (most others)
  • XML
• Building custom solutions to already solved problems Should be avoided. However, there are a few valid reasons for doing so.
  • If it's for fun. To see if you can.
  • I it's for education. To learn how it's done.
  • If your boss tells you to and won't take no for an answer. To save your job.
• Documentation can be fun, but only when certain conditions are met:
  • If it's not tedious. So you don't burn out.
  • If you're not already sick of the project. Because you're already burnt out.
• The best editor is the one that gives you the least resistance.
  • Learning to use your editor's features properly is important to your goals.
  • Some editors have a better chance at giving you the lowest possible resistance.
  • Personal taste is still valid.
• PowerShell is a good scripting language.
  • Having actual declarable types goes a long way.
  • The Verb-Noun naming convention had a profound impact on the way I name things in other languages.
  • Piping objects into other objects (and accessing the pipelined object properties in C dot-notation) isn't seen enough elsewhere.