It's such a mindset shift to work on software that has exactly one user.
Sometimes I catch myself thinking things like, "What if the user passes a string containing a hyphen here?" Then I remember that the only user is _me_.
Sometimes I catch myself thinking things like, "What if the user passes a string containing a hyphen here?" Then I remember that the only user is _me_.
This particularly thing (static site generation script for my blog) is also >10 years old and I touch it once or twice a year.
That also entails a whole different set of tradeoffs than “normal” software.
That also entails a whole different set of tradeoffs than “normal” software.
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