[TallGuyShort]

I've never gone as far as what I would consider "writing software". Whenever I've seen something software would easily solve, it's been easy to hack together with some off-the-shelf tools. Several times I've set up Google Forms (or just had everyone edit a spreadsheet directly) to collect input and then sent the CSV to a little Python script that solved some problem.

Probably my favorite was when my parents decided to pre-bequeath a bunch of their books, movies, and other items they thought their children would like to keep and weren't worth selling. I had everyone enter their prioritized preferences on hundreds of items, and implemented a little algorithm to give people their first preference, with preference towards people that desired fewer things. Saved my parents a lot of overhead and everyone was happy with the result.