• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    21 days ago

    I thought to myself “hey, I’ll just reimplement text selection myself! How difficult could it possibly be?” I was young. Naive. I estimated it would take two weeks. In reality, attempting to solve this problem would consume several years of my life

    “If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you ever tried.”