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do simple things
Here's how to tell if you've improved in some area of your life. Look at what you were doing two years ago and see if it's stupid. :)
I set out to make it really simple to write web programs in python. Just about every line of my "weblib" library is there to provide a shortcut that I might use someday. It's full of "magic" stuff to
do what I want instead of simply doing what I tell it to. Things
that should be inside an object are outside it. It's messy. Bleh.
On the whole, weblib has worked fine for years. But it's not simple.
It's not easy to install. And the same holds true for a lot of my code. I thought I was a pro, but I had such bad techniques.
Over time, it built up. So that now I have this huge set
of libraries that I can't keep in my head, and aren't documented
and don't make any sense when I look at the code. No wonder I don't have my control panel and my billing system is full of holes.
But I don't mind. I have time now. I can clean things up and do better. It's easier now than it was then. :)