Why reinventing the technology stack is incredibly hard, but a fruitful exercise:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24480117
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OSS components are so common in software stacks now. It might be an interesting exercise to try to build a e.g. a web service with 100% proprietary components.
TIL that Pong was originally a warm-up exercise for a new employee at Atari!
I'm writing an experimental PL and I want to exercise it on real programs asap. These need to be useful (so I actually try them), but simple (my PL is unfinished).
My current ideas:
* A git fuzzy branch switcher (shell commands)
* dotfiles sync (filesystem access)
Suggestions?