[netmare]

I love it. As an older Windows coder, it's one of the few things on HN I can fully grasp. There's no monads/shaders/ML/business involved--just plain old C. Almost everything else posted here makes me feel depressed and inadequate.

Some people view abstraction as something they can happily ignore. They use libraries, upon frameworks, in VMs, on blockchains, just so that they can pile on. If all we do is add, there's no purpose. Absolutum obsoletum.

Maybe it's some sort of existential crisis I'm going through, but I'm starting to ditch many advanced programs/services in favor of simple tools I can fully build and understand myself. YMMV, of course.

[miccah]

> simple tools I can fully build and understand myself

This reminds me of an excerpt from PoC||GTFO.

"[W]hen you’re tooling around with a from-scratch tool and your neighbors tell you to use this or use that, look ’em in the eye and say, “I’m building my own fucking birdfeeder.”" [1]

[1] https://q3k.org/birdfeeder.pdf

[xupybd]

Have you looked into these tools? https://suckless.org/

[easytiger]

> Maybe it's some sort of existential crisis I'm going through, but I'm starting to ditch many advanced programs/services in favor of simple tools I can fully build and understand myself. YMMV, of course

It isn't just you. A lot of my own energy wasted on tools and other things that don't really help you solve problems.

[cblum]

I share the feeling. You're not alone :)