miniblog.

I'm surprised there aren't more tools out there for starting a new project with some default config files. There's `cargo new` but it's Rust specific and very minimal. create-react-app is React specific. The only option I know of is cookiecutter. Surely it's a common problem?

Date of birth pickers are a surprisingly nuanced UI problem. What do you pick as the initial value? How do you allow users to easily move by large amounts (years) as well as small amounts (the exact day)? Defaulting to today and even allowing future dates is funny though.

My default assumption is that external libraries are better than what I (or an LLM) would write in a v1. The extra effort to publish a project generally signifies that the author has spent a good amount of time on the problem. I end up prompting LLMs to prefer external code.