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Tinker Tuesday for January 13, 2026

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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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.