Development Productivity

The Carpenter Complex

Let me tell you about my friend, the brilliant software developer who spent an entire weekend building a custom blog engine. It had markdown support, dark mode, even a custom emoji parser. The blog? Still empty. Two years later.He’s what I call a "carpenter developer". You might be one too.What’s a carpenter developer, you ask? It’s a special breed of engineer who insists on building everything from scratch. Not just the app, but the tools for the app, the deployment scripts, the CSS framework, the database abstraction layer, the authentication system, the admin dashboard, and of course, a bespoke comment...