The Mastodon instance I run for me and my friends is several orders of magnitude more code than the wiki I once ran for me and my friends, never mind the Wordpr

The Mastodon instance I run for me and my friends is several orders of magnitude more code than the wiki I once ran for me and my friends, never mind the Wordpress installation behind my personal site. Updating it is always a giant task of merging my tweaks back into the latest from the central repository, and getting the thousands of packages it depends on across three different package managers to work properly. I think that wiki was a tiny handful of Perl files. Maybe even just one. I still haven’t gotten webpack to stop deciding one of my custom SASS files doesn’t exist after the latest update, it’s clearly some other error behind this but I don’t have the energy to grovel through five miles of scrollback to try and trace it down right now. Getting started in programming is a much bigger step compared to turning on your 8-bit computer and having its BASIC prompt right there, constantly inviting you to explore beyond typing load “cool game” followed by run.