I have a tendency to want to build things from scratch. Its fun to explore and run with ideas on how I would go about building an UI for displaying articles and modifying content, and I would probably really enjoy spending hours trying to develop these tools, but for now I have better things to do with my time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the longest time I avoided using blogging tools. To me it felt like cheating, just spinning up a VM and installing WordPress. Development is a process, and without going through the process of writing my own tools, how would I be able to learn about the fascinating intricacies of managing articles?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As of right now, I’ve written at least three different blog engines that store markdown pages, tag content and featured some semblance of a text editor. They’ve been great learning experiences on various frameworks, but they just don’t hold a candle to fully realized modern blogging applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve accepted that using blogging tools doesn\u2019t diminish my skills or make me less of a developer. Instead, they allow me to focus on what truly matters… Actually creating and publishing content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There will always be a part of me that wants to dive into a stylesheet and craft the perfect navigation menu, but the effort goes unoticed. By embracing these tools, I can spend more time investing in actually learning new things that actually matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the end, it\u2019s not about how the content is managed but rather about removing barriers and focusing on the quality the content itself so things actually get done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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