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Discussion on: The Shoemaker's Children: A Developer Allegory

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Ben Halpern

Definitely agree with this post. We often don't even know what the right tool for the job is for smaller personal stuff because we spend so much time thinking in terms of our professional lives.

My personal projects often don’t get the love and rigor that I apply at work.

One thing I'll say here is that if you know you won't have the time to maintain/garden your personal stuff, you definitely want to KISS and maybe eliminate build dependencies like SASS even if it cleans up your code, because if you come back and you can't remember how to compile your code or can't make a quick change directly on GitHub, the change may never happen.