This idea totally stolen from either @adamwolf or @apolyton, I’m not sure. I can’t find the post anymore, it has sunk into the abyss of discourse. But it works too well for me not to resurface the idea again:
Create your goal super lenient and with a 30 day safety buffer. I use it for working on things that are not immediately important but which I still would like to see happen.
I have a lot of cute and tiny ideas floating in my head and in the past they ended up on an ever growing list of project ideas pile of shame. Things like:
- Use the old needle line printer I got to log when there is suspicious activity (say unexpected ssh login) on my server.
- It makes use of this ancient but still working piece of hardware,
- serves as a log that can not be erased by an attacker and
- is also an audible notification
- create a small http server for bouncing trello webhook updates (POST) back to Beeminder as GET
- make a scala program to
- convert bash scripts into something more sane such as
- haskell with turtle
- rust
- scala
- python with plumbum
- and then maybe make a github bot that files PRs to open source repositories to do this for their bash scripts
- convert bash scripts into something more sane such as
They’re all not terribly important but I’m sure I’d enjoy working on them. So I made goals for them and set them so they are super lenient but you know every once in a while they encourage me to trickle some time into them. And it works great!
May this be of help to someone And kudos to whomever came up with this originally!