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Very interesting. I think it's nice to see an account of building something from scratch instead of using a library. Sometimes I spend more time searching for a suitable library than it would take to build it from scratch :D

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Yeah, we need more articles like this on HN. I see lots of libraries promoted, instead of clean vanilla solutions like this one.

The modern developer's curse... We get better at choosing tools, but worse at building them.

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