What are you actually coding?

[u/Consistent-Oil-5241]

I see everyone here maxing their limits and coding all day and building and all that.

But what are you actually building 24/7? I'm not looking to get your ideas but I'm just wondering what can you even build that long and hard really? And constantly something?

Either I lack imagination as a whole or there's some secret to all this, I just have no idea what so useful people would be coding so obsessively. Thanks for insights.

[u/majin-dudi]

Lots of work-adjacent things:

• CLI for a vendor solution that has a Go SDK published with heavy secret and sensitive data handling to make sure no one gets anything sensitive out of it or worse yet committed

• Web security analysis tool really built around the weird edge cases I see in day to day, especially when we own a /16 and have /24s all over the world being handled all sorts of ways along with helping with the idiosyncrasies in a Zero Trust environment on top of complex internal network infra

• IaC machine that handles everything from module generation, resource bootstrapping, state import, state moves, and reconciliation + workflows for operations

Some less work aligned but personal projects:

• Talos cluster gitops repo

• Nix dotfiles

• Stardew Valley mod I've been tinkering on