Developer, Photographer, Blogger in Copenhagen.
Building things is hard. That’s true for software development and a ton of other things in life. Building meaningful relationships, building a reputation, building a better world. Whatever your construction site is, building is hard.
Sometimes things come easy and that’s when we forget that things can be hard, but time will surely remind us at some point.
Building your own tools makes you a better programmer. Seriously. There is nothing more satisfying than the feeling of pressing a single button instead of doing some annoying job that you used to do before by hand and YOUR program or script runs off to do all your work for you and then it says:
All done, task took 35 milliseconds