Here's the entire thing: https://blog.codinghorror.com/dont-reinvent-the-wheel-unless-you-plan-on-learning-more-about-wheels/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/dont

Here's the entire thing: https://blog.codinghorror.com/dont-reinvent-the-wheel-unless-you-plan-on-learning-more-about-wheels/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/dont-reinvent-the-wheel-unless... I've built plenty of wheels (servers of various protocols mostly), and one thing that I learned is that making things easy is hard - e.g. the protocol may not be well defined, or the user agents might have their quirks, or abuse it outright; the end user won't care, so the server needs to accomodate.