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.
Has anyone built a great solution to 'run all my unit tests automatically'?
It's straightforward to write a while loop in bash, but handling timeouts, syntax errors etc well is hard.
Running on save would be good, although I wonder if you could run fast tests on each keystroke.