Could you build an entirely automated open source project?
For example, suppose you're trying to make the fastest gzip library. You could write a bot that automatically accepted and released any pull requests that improved the benchmark! No human intervention needed at all.
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I've only got a few VPS instances, but setting hostnames automatically to match Ansible inventory makes my life so much easier. I should have done this way sooner.
It's so much nicer than seeing wilfred@ubuntu on every box I ssh into.
I've been learning some Common Lisp by writing some simple JSON munging programs. I'm sure it's not best practice — I should probably deserialise to CLOS automatically — but it's a nice way to get comfortable with the basics.
It feels weird deliberately ignoring helpers though.
One day I am going to reach the height of technological sophistication, and every clock in my house will handle daylight savings automatically.
I'm not there yet. I think modern appliances are getting better though.
(Does a microwave really need to know the current time?)