I definitely used to look for reasons to include cool new dependencies that I found, just to try and do something with cool libraries. But as I got bit by the

I definitely used to look for reasons to include cool new dependencies that I found, just to try and do something with cool libraries. But as I got bit by the various issues with dependencies multiple times over the years, I have ended up preferring as few as possible and ideally zero beyond the standard library for hobby projects if I can get away with it.