Terraform

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1. NeutraljlduggerMay 23, 2023

   I've not bothered with a physical board, but I have a massive Trello board. For teams I strongly recommend specialized boards for projects and processes -- the process to migrate a MySQL database will be dramatically different than building an LLM.

   But for personal stuff, fitting everything into one work flow is fine. If folks are wondering how to use Kanban for personal needs, I currently have 7 columns:

   Dumb ideas: 62 cards

   Backlog of Doom: 100 cards

   Not Yet: 38 cards

   Weekly recurring: 8 cards

   Doing: 4 cards

   Review: 4 cards

   It Is Done: 1 card

   Dumb ideas is a holding tank for wild ideas, usually low priority or high risk. To pick a few examples: trial adopting tiling windowing managers, buying an IPv4 block, and terraform for social media profiles are all on there. Also: "self-hosted Trello alternative." Basically things go here so I can remember I decided that idea was _not_ a good one, so I dont get into any "I thought I had a card for this" create-delete-create loop.

   Backlog of Doom is your standard backlog. Lots of video games, books and software projects here.

   Not Yet is basically a way of hiding things that are scheduled for later. This is almost entirely TV shows awaiting new seasons, but also a few tasks filing taxes, selling shares etc.

   Weekly recurring is essentially a tighter loop of that, plus some information gathering tasks ("look for new books at the library on $topic", "review the top posts for the past week on /r/$subreddit".

   Doing is as expected.

   Review is a catchall for things that benefit from double checks -- financial transactions, followup communications with insurance, etc. If I wanted I could also use it for book reviews.

   Done is as expected, but has a butler cleanup task to archive cards.

   I've also got labels for Games, Shows, Reading, Money, and a few others.