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There's also that aspect of building, or creating in general, where if you have more tools, which are easily accumulated on a computer but also in a workshop or

There's also that aspect of building, or creating in general, where if you have more tools, which are easily accumulated on a computer but also in a workshop or creative studio, you'll tend to find a use for them. I've often found myself in the midsts of a caffeine binging thinking: I've definitely over complicated things for myself here. In a similar way that the job isn't finished in the workshop until you've cleaned up, overly complicating software has a long tail too.

stinos 5y ago
That's a good point actually. I've had my fair share of complete overkill designs in the past myself. Once I learned the problems it creates years later in large codebases I actively try not to do that anymore though. And to fix the earlier mistakes. Which is also fun: it's not uncommon to fix issues and even implement new features, yet end up with a diff showing more lines deleted than added.