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Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? by Fatboyrunning on Friday April 28, 2023 @09:00AM (#35740747)
What a great idea! Are you inclined to make a guide? If so, my old-school wife and myself would be grateful.

Otherwise, I will enjoy the fun of figuring it out for myself some day.

Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? by JKCalhoun on Friday April 28, 2023 @09:07AM (#35740819)
I'll open-source it when I get the embarrassing bugs worked out.
Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? by joh6nn on Friday April 28, 2023 @09:40AM (#35741159)
I encourage you not to be embarrassed and to simply opensource it. To err is human; anyone giving you grief because of bugs doesn't deserve the effort you've put in. And opening it now could actually bring assistance in getting those bugs fixed, while simultaneously benefitting everyone who wants to do something similar but isn't sure where to start
Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? by giantrobot on Friday April 28, 2023 @03:46PM (#35746195)
I won't speak for anyone else but sometimes "bugs" in more about process than code. I have a similar project as the GP and am not currently interested in open sourcing the project because there's a lot of bespoke elements and manual setup process. I don't want to have to make a README describing all the process steps that make my code actually useful.

For me, on my hardware, on my network, I've got a process that works. It's a non-zero amount of effort to generalize the description of that process.