[combatentropy]

To a newb just using Postgres should be new and exciting. It's such a rich database I am still learning, even after years using it.

Maybe that was just a bad example. But I don't know, even just using old HTML and CSS to set the page is always interesting to me, because there are always problems to overcome. How do we make everything fit on the page without it being cluttered? How do we let the user do this thing that they want while also not interfering with this other thing that they say they want?

After many years, I like to use old, established pieces, but fitting the pieces together is what I find interesting.

At the same time, when I was first starting out, there was a greater urge to roll my own. I remember rolling my own diff program, in PHP. It was worse at diffing than figuring out how to safely pass the inputs into the shell, and just using good old diff, but it made me happy and it was a useful mental exercise. Newbs need to stretch their wings and see how far they can fly. Their flight is probably much worse than just hopping on the ol' jet. It's a hard problem.