At ten to nine one Thursday morning I had a new skill working, built out of the strongest idea in somebody else's library. At three minutes past ten I deleted it.
Seventy-one minutes. Long enough to build the thing properly and find out it was wrong, which is not the same as looking at it and deciding I didn't fancy it.
Friction is the only thing that starts any of this
Nothing here gets replaced because I woke up wanting to replace it. Every single time, it's friction. Something rubs, and keeps rubbing, in a way I can't talk myself out of noticing.
That matters, because anyone with a repository full of their own modules gets accused of not-invented-here sooner or later, and it's a fair thing to accuse somebody of. So here is the order I actually work in.
