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  • skip0110@lemmy.ziptoLobste.rsMothlamp Problems
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    1 month ago

    In a corporate world of vague problems, shifting goals, limited time…sometimes it’s nice to be unencumbered by all that and just fly into shiny things repeatedly:)

    That’s why I pick these impossible/pointless personal projects. I just want to have fun writing code.


  • I have consistently been trying to use AI for the actual tasks I need to complete for work over the last year or so (we are gently encouraged to try it, but thankfully not forced). I have found it to be “successful” at maybe 1 in 10 tasks I give it. Even when successful, the code quality is so low I edit heavily before it’s pushed and attributed to me.

    I think the problem I have is I rarely work on boilerplate stuff.











  • skip0110@lemmy.zipOPtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldGlance home dashboard
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    2 months ago

    Yes, and not only is this project very generically named, searching for what I was looking to do was difficult because of the wide range of options in terms of what a home dashboard should be…

    Many people want home automation integration, I don’t have any (centralized) home automation

    Many projects with UI designed for smallish touch screens (e.g. wall mounted info panels, where you need to tap to see info)

    Many projects want a full fledged grafana type install, overkill for me/my tiny homelab

    I was aiming for something more akin to those hotel lobby TVs which show useful local info and news on a fixed refresh cycle. This was also common on cable TV years ago: some channels would just show weather and news headlines 24/7 on a fixed cycle with music.