>"Maybe I'm being too harsh on myself, but its hard to be proud of my work when every 30 minutes I have to lookup an example or reference of some part of an API, and then modify it for my purposes"
The time to invent something new is when it will take ten weeks to complete your project using existing technology or five weeks using new technology and it will take two weeks to develop the new technology.*
The wheel has already been invented, so there's no point in building your own hexagonal version - focus instead on what is important: shipping.
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>"Maybe I'm being too harsh on myself, but its hard to be proud of my work when every 30 minutes I have to lookup an example or reference of some part of an API, and then modify it for my purposes"
The time to invent something new is when it will take ten weeks to complete your project using existing technology or five weeks using new technology and it will take two weeks to develop the new technology.*
The wheel has already been invented, so there's no point in building your own hexagonal version - focus instead on what is important: shipping.
* Credit to Neil Stephenson