Post #3028911
2026-02-18 07:54 UTC
@dthompson@toot.cat I grew up in a software world where you pretty much had to make things almost from scratch, and have stuck to that a lot (yes, even to extent of operating system and tcp/ip stack and so on in one case). These days I do look to see if libraries do what I want, and occasionally they do. I use curl library for example, that is good. But so often I write for myself and learn so much as a result, hence I have loads of libraries published open source. Note that #AI deprives you…
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@revk@toot.me.uk 2026-02-18 07:56
@dthompson@toot.cat sometimes there is nothing to do what I want. Sometimes there is but it is horrid to use. Sometimes it does not quite do what I need. Sometimes it does way too much, stuff I don’t need and so ends up as bloat and complexity. Lots of reasons I end up writing my own. But sometimes there are tools, but I just want to understand it all better so making my own is a way to do that.