Chris Oostenbrink
muesli"Telling a programmer there's already a library to do X is like telling a songwriter there's already a song about love"
-- Pete Cordell
Basil@fribbledom node modules says otherwise 😅
Ben@fribbledom @basil host name checks out
mmu_man@fribbledom and then nodejs packages are like boys band songs?
kit@fribbledom but this is a BETTER song about love, using the latest cuddles protocol and enhanced UI (user infatuation)
Mr. Teatime"Everything has already been said, just not yet by everybody"
-- Karl Valentin (translation from German)
waglo@fribbledom it's all about Wayland anyway ;-)
Steve Roy@fribbledom Having worked on too many projects with a cornucopia of dependencies, I beg to differ.
What's your point, tho?
@fribbledom If the quote is about programmers’ propensity to reinvent the wheel, my experience has been the opposite: programmers too quickly jumping on third-party libraries and creating a spaghetti of dependencies.
Christian Rocha@fribbledom In that vein, the typographer Tobias Frere-Jones says that we'll stop needing new fonts just as soon as we'll stop needing new music.
🦁 (Ayayron)@meowgorithm @fribbledom Isn't this the truth, or a painter about a portrait, or a designer about a login screen. Sometimes the effort of creation is the entire point. We grow by doing it ourselves.
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Dzamie/Azurel@fribbledom "Yeah, but doing it this way gives me finer control over it." - Me, every time
Howard Chu @ Symas@fribbledom a good programmer will get something working with the existing library first, and then figure out what it does badly that could easily be improved...