Today I wrote a little daemon as a single #Bash script and have it write to a log file. I wanted to append to and compress the file without needed to invoke `logrotate` or similar. Trying to avoid using standard tools like this sometimes leads to new or interesting ways of doing things. Or they lead down fruitless rabbit holes, and I should just use standard tools. It can be a razor's edge width between elegant simplicity and robust complexity. I suppose that keeps us employed.