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I am a budding woodworker. Not very good at it. Spent too much money on tools I have never used. My most used creation is a tablet stand which is basically two

I am a budding woodworker. Not very good at it. Spent too much money on tools I have never used. My most used creation is a tablet stand which is basically two pieces of wood with a hinge joining them. I wish someone had given me similar sort of advice as the OP about tools when starting out. You don't need as many as you think especially as an amateur with limited space. Feels like web development is the same. I get that big companies have resources and people to maintain the fancy CMSs and SSGs but someone like me who writes one post every two years perhaps plain old HTML is best.

mtrower 4y ago
Yes, unfortunately it's easy to get caught up in your tools even for simple work. Go on YouTube and watch woodworking videos, you'll see shops full of 5 figures worth of tools, and probably get the idea that you need the same. And every damn tutorial and beginner blog post on web programming shows you how to set things up with this stack, or that stack, so many different stacks but always some stack. And so people feel that they must need a stack...