I run a badly written monolith (my home automation system), and tend to make tiny personal programs some weird offshoot growth of it. There's upsides and downs

I run a badly written monolith (my home automation system), and tend to make tiny personal programs some weird offshoot growth of it. There's upsides and downsides to this. I'm aware it's basically guaranteed to be useless to anyone else because it's depending on software I'd never encourage someone else to run, for instance, and it locks me into certain coding choices. However, I spend a lot less time doing boilerplate/framework stuff, because I've already got the basics running for other tasks: Stuff for logging, settings, data storage, and remote control and monitoring is already a given.