ennui
Yikes …
My attitude about work pretty much took a hard left a couple days ago.
I just got …. tired, and stopped caring about my crazy deep projects like the already-ignored subversion project, and the ldap project.
I keep bumping into more cool things I could do with ldap. With a working ldap backend for user management, I could link like 8 more things into authenticating against it. I could be backing windows logins (by ldapsam as a samba DC), linux logins (via pam), subversion auth (via mod_auth_ldap), vpn logins (via ldap-backed radius), cacti graph viewing (again via straight-up ldap). I could use that and the fact that I have an actual dns domain name to set up a SSL/TLS setup and some form of PKI, and use that to get the vpn from pptpd to l2tp+ipsec, still authing against radius authing against the same backend as ldap.
And who would care?
Nobody. I don’t have nearly enough users, particularly not nearly enough users who actually use the stuff I can give them. Maybe if I were supporting 30 or 40 full time developers, instead of 2 fulltimers and a handful of student devs.
This week, I kept glancing back at the ldap project and then glancing at the other projects that I’ve gotten done. And as my cool looking subversion repository remains empty and neglected, and as my firewall ruleset improvements amount to being basically unnoticable to anyone … I guess I’ve gotten a bit discouraged.
All I accomplished this week is firewall ruleset tweaks, some scripting, and just random little odd jobs. I mean, I wasn’t just sitting there staring off into space or anything, but I wasn’t working on anything particularly interesting, useful, or significant either.
I sort of feel like I’m outgrowing my pond…