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It was something that was consuming a lot of her time at work so I automated it. I’m using 3 cloud services and I’m well within the free tier of all of them, even with this week being peak load (it’s basically automating the sending of a bunch of emails for coordination purposes). All I had to pay for was the domain to get the emails working.

I have to say, there’s something so rewarding about small projects. I have complete control over the tech debt. I have complete control over the stack. I actually get to watch my one user use the software in person and give immediate feedback. The number of times she’s asked me for something and I’ve gotten it deployed within minutes has been so satisfying. And she’s so excited and grateful because I did 20 hours of work to save her a couple hundred and a lot of mental overhead.

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[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 16 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I made a website for my wife that's some photos of her looking real pretty. It's not for anything, she's just real pretty.

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[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 9 points 21 hours ago

Running your own stack is so freeing. I started early at my company and set up everything on a local stack with free software and then wrote our own suite of automation tooling with no external dependencies (beyond the ones packaged with the design software we need to use, but I wrote the tooling to be modular and we can decouple from that environment if we need to).

Luckily the owners never ran a company before so all that work got zero recognition lol

[–] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 4 points 21 hours ago