I am guilty of reinventing the wheel on almost every project. It brings immense control but doubles the workload. I do this because I have trust issues, but at least in the end I have “homemade everything”
It’s practice and it makes you better!
As long as you don’t insist on using them even after it became clear that the off the shelf version is better in ever way and you’ll never have enough time to reach its quality level.
pretty much 😂
it does !!
I’d be curious to hear of a time when it paid off and one when it didn’t it. And about the kind of stuff you do.
I’m rather preparing to reinvent the wheel a little bit, as a technical person albeit one who does not code.
I feel like doubling the workload is better than quadrupling the size of the project inheriting a bevy of features and tools you likely won’t touch at all. Sure it’s stripped out later (ideally), but I like less bloat and that includes during dev when I might have to dig through 3rd party code with its own conventions and standards packed into a ‘source available’ library with potentially dogshit or absent documentation.
Also yes, it’s good practice
Unused code is stripped out by the compiler, but will your homemade library properly use all the fancy instruction set extensions for matrices? IIRC it’s not as simple as just compiling for the correct microarch. But I could be wrong.
How To Make An Apple Pie From Scratch has the recipe for that.
(Seriously, it’s a great read - one of my favourite popular science reads since, well, since Sagan.)
I actually watched that episode last night, so that post was kinda jumping at me. What are the odds…
Sagan, a real teacher. Not only smart, there are quite a few smart people. But also able to make something complicated easily understood. To make something abstract sound straight. To make something minds can’t grasp comprehensible. A beautiful ability!
Perhaps he is the chosen one to decipher the old Eldrich scripts to the masses. Incomprehensible knowledge becomes casual teachings through this man
“In case I want to watch them and they’re not on any of my streaming services” /s
One of my favourite quotes to bring up whenever someone is cooking
I am very popular in the kitchen
Can I have one where using their brains doesn’t cause humans discomfort?
