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Learning by doing is hard to beat when it comes to building software.

I am starting a home lab to have a safe environment to try things out. Any ideas on what I could run that is completely useless but fun to set up?

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[–] logging_strict 2 points 1 week ago

Take any package that is no longer maintained and git clone it.

Configure the dev environment

pre-compile
three tox config files:

testing, docs/lint/formatting/pre-compile/interrogate, update/sync requirements files
unittest --> pytest

Read the tests and then bring it up to your current competency level
gh workflows
pyproject.toml

poetry is worthless!

If the build backend focus is on requirements and not build plugins, remove it. Use a separate package for requirements file management.

For how to do this see how logging-strict is doing it

Specifically pyproject.toml and tox-req.ini