[swsieber]

Here here! And not just automation, but glue! At my last job I was a big advocate for automate all the things. "Manual Jenkins lookup task? I bet I could write a plugin for that.", etc. I got lots of practice jumping into new systems, tracing what the minimum essentials for what I needed to do were, and then making something useful.

At my current job we have some code that generates typescript RPC bindings from our java code. It's quite slick but the backend definitions and the frontend definitions aren't linked, and navigation between them is a pain. So I decided to write an IntelliJ plugin that allows for navigation and find usages across our two languages. Took 2 days-ish, but totally worth it.