Well anybody can build CRUD, so I choose another path. From beginning of 2017, I learn serverless architecture. Currently I'm building serverless data lake on top of aws, and automate the deployment using terraform.
If You live in Indonesia, especially in Jakarta or any big city, there is a law not to give beggars money. Why? because they are lie to you. They can earn salary more than a bank branch manager[1]. And so many people like them and organized very well.
If I'm in your position, I think I will give them snack or meal.
I work on my dev server, CentOS 6.5. Last year I choose Ubuntu 10.04 on my old laptop (Intel Dualcore), but now I still can't decide best linux distro for my laptop, last time I try L/X/K/Ubuntu 13.04, but it make my laptop battery drain faster and really hot (AMD quadcore) and some of those distro can't work properly like has buggy in graphics, I already install the driver too.