We are used to automating provisioning and configuration of servers, but many of us never automated anything regarding our own development machines. Things like editor/IDE settings synchronization, reusing dot files on different machines, or installing packages.
Ansible is a well known cross-platform automation tool for configuring computers. And I think it is a good fit for automating development machines as well. In fact, I wrote an article about just that: How to automatically set up a development machine with Ansible.
Go check it out! You might get inspired to automate something today.
Until next time,
Petr