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If your manager told you to spend the next two weeks working on any "fun and fulfilling" project at work, what would you do?

Given this freedom, what do you take on?

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Andrew Brown πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ • Edited

I would finish up my AWS Star Trek Karaoke app where you can input a karaoke soundtrack and it would clip together video photage to make star trek character sing.

So I can make things like this:

It would cost $500 USD on AWS to transcribe the entire seasons of TNG but I have the credits to do so.

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Shannon Crabill

Hello, fellow Trekie! πŸ––

This is an amazing project and I hope you can get the resources to complete it.

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Noman Gul

Maybe I'll turn "Sublime" into "VSCode" on all machines πŸ™ƒ

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Arman Khan

The hero we need!

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ItsASine (Kayla)

Refactor the world. No new feature development -- just making the existing codebases cleaner and easier to maintain.

This may be because of my 3-year-old Tech Debt of Doom Confluence doc. Or maybe because it takes 2 weeks to get my data-driven tests functional again after the data changes... yeah, mostly that one (I'm currently on day 4).

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Ben Halpern

For me, extended periods of "therapeutic refactoring"

Perhaps with the added freedom to work on features or bug fixes that come up as I discover them. Lots of the best parts of the DEV codebase I've contributed were in these periods.

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Desi

I think this would be mine too, but in a different way. Our copy has been written and rewritten by many different people in many different countries over many different years without any style guide, and I'd love to develop a style guide and get all copy up to a consistent standard!

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Danny Perez

My upcoming work hackathon project will be a tool to aggregate JIRA ticket #'s from git log messages, and link them to a ticket to internally track all changes that are going out in a particular build.

Also, I can't believe that fun & fulfilling project at work would involve JIRA πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

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Ben Halpern

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Molly Struve (she/her)

Refactor our Elasticsearch searching code and make the specs run faster!

Last year I got the chance to overhaul our indexing code mainly to make changes to improve performance. The end result code was SO much cleaner and nicer than the original!!! I would love to do that again.

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Yaser Adel Mehraban

I would start working on a machine learning model with Tensorflow.Js and do something cool like creating complex/dynamic scenarios in a game with unsupervised learning 😍

The game can be used for useful stuff like teach kids how to code πŸ”₯.

Oooops, did I give up too much on my side project? πŸ˜‰

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RΓ©my πŸ€–

I would get a thousand ideas, run in circles and accomplish nothing

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nareshravlani

You got a company πŸ™‹πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

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Isaac Lyman

Haha, too real.

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ryibas

This hits closer to home than I'd like.

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Garrett / G66

We use a terrible CRM but being a small non-profit I can’t seem to convince them to get something better. So, I would spend 2 weeks working on an MVP of a custom one just for our org.

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Eugene Cheah

Are you referring to DoorJam? - There is an entire guide on how to do so on a raspberry pi =D

You can see more details at ideas.redpepper.land/doorjam-47f1a...

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