At the moment, I'm mainly interested in tools. I started out writing shell scripts and learning some Python, mostly to automate tasks I found myself doing frequently. For instance, when I was working as a teacher I had to mark multiple choice tests for a class of 30 students, so I cobbled together a shell script that cleaned up and formatted word documents sent in by my students and compared them to the answer key, computing a score in percentage.
Since then, I've also dabbled in web development, creating and then abandoning a couple of proof-of-concept apps, and more recently I've developed an interest in infrastructure-as-code. I have a few different computers (my workplace is a great source of recyclable equipment) with different roles (a Jellyfin media server, a Pi-Hole adblocker and an automated file storage and backup system), and I'm currently learning how to use Ansible to configure all of these in a declarative and maintainable way.