This is good advice and of course, because of the nature of computer science and software engineering, it WLOGs its way to many other topics. For example: I’ve

This is good advice and of course, because of the nature of computer science and software engineering, it WLOGs its way to many other topics. For example: I’ve always enjoyed the tools that come as a pile of small Unix utilities, rather as one single application (GUI or not, but usually GUI.) BitTornado in the early 2000s. Git of course, where you build your own workflows that work for you using the different command line tools (fetch and rebase, pull and merge, cherry-pick if you want to.) Much of the Debian helper script suite is designed to be reusable in small components in a makefile, rather than enforcing you do it all their way in one big invocation. And of course the current systemd vs bash-plus-lsb-shell-functions comparison. I found I couldn’t use ZFS without systemd recently, on an Ubuntu install. ZFS shipped with init scripts that only worked with systemd, but systemd meant my console booted blank. I decided to fix the former rather than the latter and it was pretty easy to write my own ZFS init scripts using the LSB init shell functions — a library, not a framework.