> But I guess my broader point is that if I have to create a shell script to quickly generate the boilerplate file stuff for a new post/page, I’m _basically_ al

> But I guess my broader point is that if I have to create a shell script to quickly generate the boilerplate file stuff for a new post/page, I’m _basically_ already doing what early PHP was designed to do. I don’t think my proposed shell script (which I don’t even use) adds any complexity. (See my other comment [1] about it.) Of course, I agree that it can go too far, and yes, sometimes we’re reinventing old stuff, but sometimes, we’re rather discovering that something that happens to be old actually works pretty well, if not better than whatever modern method we were using. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20241438 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20241438