When I started in Perl, sometime around 2000, I did so trying to automate system administration tasks. Shortly after, I started falling in love. Then I was on a hunt for things to build, just for fun. I'm sure I asked "what can I do" to the old time greats, where the response was often "find distributions, fix bugs, write patches" (where that advice was a Godsend actually in the long run).

I think every budding developer goes through a period where they try to imagine what they want to dream up.

Now, there's no hardware I can't conquer, no API I can't wrap, no challenge that's too big to put effort into. With that said...

a Perl idea that I have no time for is one that can dream up new ideas for people like me in my earliest years while I was looking for them.

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