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Discussion on: What's your favorite piece of software that you built for yourself?

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Jonas Brømsø

I made a small application to check the contents of a repository/directory for, specific files, versions of files etc to make sure I remember important stuff like licenses, code of conduct, basic tool configuration and so on… and to keep things up to date. First working version is in Perl, considering porting to go…

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Waylon Walker

Super cool, it's so easy to forget the small stuff. Does it look for language specific files? like package.json or setup.py?

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Jonas Brømsø

Well the goal is to cover what cannot be handled by Dependabot and Renovate. I am trying to flesh out a specification, while I am working on the prototype/pilot in Perl. I have more ideas than there are hours in the day, but it is slowly progressing.

I made a note with basic comparison on what is covered by Dependabot and Renovate. I want to aim for all that small stuff, which falls between the cracks like .editorconfig etc.