This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.
Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.
If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service
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Yeah, I'm stilling holding out for a better offer from the other place. Their tech stack is .net which I've spent the majority of my career in, so it's a much better fit. Plus I've received every indication the pay will be better too.
Ouch. As someone who used to write mostly .net, I commiserate. Maven might be slightly better than the old MSBuild, but I write pom.xml the way I write k8s manifests: by copying a good one from another project. There's no way you can write one by hand without making a critical mistake.
I have no idea what angel blessed the authors of Docker, but Dockerfiles have the best syntax in the world. Well, CMD/ENTRYPOINT mess aside.
Writing mvn files used to be pretty annoying, but LLMs are now pretty decent at doing this kind of boring work. Unless you're trying to do something very tricky, any LLM now would probably produce a workable mvn/gradle file for most common use cases. Same for stuff like manifests - Google, actually, pretty much tells you to use gemini now to generate all that (they actively promote trainings on how to generate all cloud configs with gemini). I am happy about it, never enjoyed this part of work and always tried to automate it away as much as possible.
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