I think this is an important skill that enough people don't cultivate nowadays.
At some level there's always going to be some dependencies unless you literally bootstrap the universe from first principles. And people like to use that as a rationalization for why they shouldn't bother going a little bit lower level than they normally would.
I recently put together my own personal blog after years of putting it off and letting domains go unused. I've thought about using Hugo, Jekyll, even Wordpress. But I just hated the thought of everything extra that comes with them.
But I also didn't want to handwrite all of my HTML, manually move files around, etc. So instead I wrote my own thing in about 20 lines of bash. Super easy to comprehend and I can fit it to exactly what I'm doing. It feels nicer versus typical Node stuff I do where it feels like I'm stuffing clowns in a car.
At some level there's always going to be some dependencies unless you literally bootstrap the universe from first principles. And people like to use that as a rationalization for why they shouldn't bother going a little bit lower level than they normally would.
I recently put together my own personal blog after years of putting it off and letting domains go unused. I've thought about using Hugo, Jekyll, even Wordpress. But I just hated the thought of everything extra that comes with them.
But I also didn't want to handwrite all of my HTML, manually move files around, etc. So instead I wrote my own thing in about 20 lines of bash. Super easy to comprehend and I can fit it to exactly what I'm doing. It feels nicer versus typical Node stuff I do where it feels like I'm stuffing clowns in a car.