I've realised that my favourite side projects all have fiddly bits.
It's really nice to have small features that you can add or debug in a few minutes.
miniblog.
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I'm reaching a point where I want a declarative, GitOps style workflow for DNS for my personal projects.
Anyone have opinions? The obvious options seem to be Terraform or DNSControl.
I'm trying mini projects to exercise my new programming language and find gaps.
So far I've done fizzbuzz, JSON parsing, and a crude scheme interpreter.
Any ideas for additional projects? They need to be well scoped because I keep finding e.g. stdlib crashes.
LLVM's lit tool for testing files is the most successful testing DSL I've ever seen. It's used a decent number of projects outside of LLVM.
By contrast I don't see many folks using e.g. Cucumber these days.