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How does TikTok search even work? I wish I had the patience to sift through all the garbage of an empty profile. Maybe I'll peak a Twitch stream of it some time to get a better idea.

Reading, writing, and thinking clearly has not always been my strong suit, so yeah xD ; take this with a grain of salt.

Hey dude was wondering how this comment made you feel:

> Cloud monitoring is a saturated market.

It's like yeah, it's saturated but it's saturated because the infrastructure is we're hosting it on is still and forever changing. Take some serverless CloudFormation in AWS; there was no good solution for application monitoring until someone specifically started solving for it because no one in their right mind was going to use CloudWatch and none of the other existing monitoring solutions/tools could fit the bill either unless they started from scratch and solved for that specific new infrastructure.

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The Cloud monitoring market might seem saturated but that's because there is no "silver bullet" solution given how much infrastructure has been and continues to change.

I am particularly interested in the last item on his wish-list: Pry on Steroids: Interactive Ruby Development. Does anyone develop this way?

I'll admit that I am new to ruby and coming from Python I immediately fell in love with pry and was wondering if there was anyone out there who utilizes such a work-flow involving some sort of REPL. I have been having a hard-time figuring out a way to do this with pry in rails.

At first my inner neckbeard scoffed and proclaimed why? I looked at the source and realized I don't know jack about CSS3 and how easy something like this is to implement in less than ~150 lines of code was like ramming a sock down my inner neckbeard's throat.

If you have a ton of ideas and they're all, for the most part, general, vague, novel, and abstract, practice prototyping. Make it really dirty, don't over-think it, and keep a closed-mind while in the beginning stages of a project; IOW, don't pre-optimize your project by recursively worrying about other edge cases, write for a single case and get something on the screen.

Given your background, I'd scratch all these "big picture" or "overly ambitious" ideas and return to a domain you're more confident in, pick something (axiom, rule, theorem, etc.) specific, and see if you can express or simulate an example of the "thing" in action.

> "why didn't you spend your unemployment working on a project to flesh out your portfolio?"

Who cares? Generally the last thing I do is try to get practical with my portfolio just to impress some third party; depending on who you are, what field you're interested in, and everything else in your portfolio, the projects you produce will only vary as much as you originally imagined them.

If you're projects aren't interesting to you, are they really worth doing? All this aside, if I were OP I wouldn't be shy about chalking-up this experiment as a "project" since most ad agencies and creative types eat this stuff up.