Great advice. As a tinkerer, this tends to come naturally to me. In the commercial world I can see why reinventing the wheel is a bad thing. Minimum viable pr

Great advice. As a tinkerer, this tends to come naturally to me. In the commercial world I can see why reinventing the wheel is a bad thing. Minimum viable product is a word that gets tossed around a lot. In order to meet that standard, one must expend the least amount of effort getting from A to B. Might as well ride on the shoulders of giants. Sometimes it's not necessary to write the whole thing over again. You can speed through something by picking an open source project and commit a few easy patches. Then dig in deeper and look at hard ones. There's something to learn by reading what others have done as well. :)