TITLE: Time Spent Programming Is Often Time Well Spent
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: September 22, 2020  4:09 PM
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<a href="https://leancrew.com/all-this/2020/08/rss-and-the-pleasure-of-not-thinking/">
   This</a>.

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 Was the time I spent writing my RSS scripts more than the time
 I would now spend thinking about the "best" RSS aggregator and
 reader?  Doesn't matter.  I enjoyed writing the scripts.  I
 learned new things and got satisfaction out of seeing them run
 correctly.  I get nothing like that out of comparing apps and
 services.
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 I concur so strongly not only because he writes about RSS, which
 I'm
<a href="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2016-09.html#e2016-09-22T15_03_14.htm">
   on record</a>
 as supporting and using.  I enjoy rolling my own simple software
 in almost any domain.  Simple has a lot of advantages.  Under my
 control has a lot of advantages.  But the biggest advantage echoes
 what Dr. Drang says:  Programming is often more fun than the
 alternative uses of my time.

 I program because I like to, and because I can.
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