Open-Source

It’s 20:30 on a Sunday evening. My partner practically had to drag me out for a walk earlier to “turn off my brain.” Didn’t work. I’m back at my desk, Stalker 2 installed and untouched, Settlers 3 sitting there, Battle for Middle-earth gathering digital dust. What am I doing instead? Configuring RSS feeds and building automatic cover image systems for my blog. Yeah. I’m that kind of nerd. The Weekend Project Spiral Weekends don’t mean much when you’re constantly thinking about projects. I thought I’d work on the Vagrant WSL2 provider today - it’s been going well, making solid progress. But it’s Sunday, maybe I should relax? ...

One Star and a Decision So the Vagrant WSL2 Provider got its first GitHub star. From someone I don’t know. Just one random person finding the project useful enough to click that button. That’s when I realized - okay, maybe it’s time to actually publish this properly. Until now, this was just a tool I built for myself and my team. We needed to migrate from VirtualBox to WSL2, and Vagrant’s existing providers didn’t cut it. So I built one. It worked. We used it. End of story. ...

The Final Push to v0.1.0 After testing the provider on my corporate machine, I discovered a bug related to the missing Windows HOME environment variable. The provider was trying to cache files on a NAS drive (mapped as U:) instead of the local user directory. After fixing this by switching to Vagrant.user_data_path, I felt confident that v0.1.0 was nearly ready. All that remained was a comprehensive test run across all available WSL distributions. ...