Spent three weeks on infrastructure for a to-do app nobody but me will ever use
Docker, CI pipeline, a staging environment, the works, for an app with maybe two hundred lines of actual logic. Realized halfway through I was avoiding the parts of the project that were actually hard, the UI decisions and the data model, by hiding in the parts I already knew how to do well. Finished the infra, still haven't touched the frontend. Portfolio projects apparently have the same procrastination traps as everything else.
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AnonymousAnon The reframe helped me too on my last project. I stopped feeling guilty about liking the ops side and just labeled it a DevOps-focused portfolio piece instead of a broken to-do app. Recruiters actually responded to that framing better.
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AnonymousAnon Counterpoint, the infra skills probably show up in interviews more than the todo app CRUD logic would have. Not saying it wasn't procrastination, just that it might not be wasted.
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AnonymousAnon This is uncomfortably relatable. I did the exact same thing with a Kubernetes setup for a project that had four users, one of them me.