It's amazing how many different shovels he is able to come up with.

See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Folks who like this may like Watchy, an opensource smart watch with an eink display, WiFi, Bluetooth, and a 7 day battery life. I do not own one but it is a bit tempting. https://watchy.sqfmi.com/ make sure to check out the watch faces

I would reach out to the staffing department at the place you are applying for and explain your situation. They will probably give you the best advice on how they would want somebody to handle your situation.

i do this, mixed with a little docker run inside of Makefiles. i store all my ansible playbooks in a repo, along with other repos for different projects and purposes. i store all of those in git repos that i clone via ssh from a server that acts as a NAS backed by zfs.