I like that. A constraint means you have at least a starting point too. I've always struggled to keep on track when faced with seemingly infinite options. The first few decisions/constraints that define a project and allow it to be worked on can take a long time.
I really wonder if that admin was more of a 'bastard operator from hell' (old school reference) or sneakily getting you to improve yourself.
> I really wonder if that admin was more of a 'bastard operator from hell'
Ha, yes, he absolutely was. Just very lazy, knew I already had SSH access to our staging server, and knew I needed to develop on there, but didn't want to bother setting up SSHFS and configuring it to be accessible from my windows machine, and didn't want me telling him to do a new staging deploy every 10 minutes while I tried to figure out how to get some connected hardware working right.
I really wonder if that admin was more of a 'bastard operator from hell' (old school reference) or sneakily getting you to improve yourself.