apparently "its quicker and easier if i code it myself from scratch" even applies to old code i wrote cause i was trying to salvage this old json handling code that made allocations like nobody's business and it was much quicker and easier to just write a new one from scratch and start incrementally migrating things over
All other programmers are always idiots that don't know what they're doing. Yes, this includes Past You. Always.
i am so ruthlessly committed to Dialectics programming that i am constantly at war with the person i was code i wrote two days ago, who is which was written by a clown and a coward

