#reinventingthewheel — Public Fediverse posts

👀 Oh, look, someone thinks they've reinvented the wheel by...catching birds for sanity? 😂 Because nothing screams mental stability like playing cat-and-mouse with wildlife. 🐱🐦 Next up: "I wrestled a squirrel and now I'm a life coach." 🙄
https://catchabird.com #reinventingthewheel #birdwatching #sanity #humor #wildlifeantics #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, because nothing screams "efficiency" like handcrafting a large language model in TypeScript—because why use Python when you can suffer in silence, right? 🤦‍♂️ Watch as #NodeJS enthusiasts painstakingly reinvent the wheel, layer by layer, while valiantly ignoring every existing, well-optimized solution. 🚀
https://book.humanexperiences.io/ #efficiency #reinventingthewheel #TypeScript #programminghumor #techsatire #HackerNews #ngated

🤡 Oh joy, another "from scratch" series where the devs brag about reinventing the wheel but in a slightly more hipster way. 🤓 Because clearly, what the world needs now is a rambling dissertation on swapping one obscure library for another, complete with buzzwords like "agentic cloud." 🚀
https://blog.boxlite.ai/building-a-vmm-from-scratch-0-why-boxlite-is-replacing-libkrun #fromscratch #reinventingthewheel #developerhumor #techbuzzwords #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, look! Someone reinvented the wheel, but this time it’s a rusty shopping cart wheel 🤦‍♂️. Who knew cramming ancient #DirectX games into a browser was the future of gaming? 🚀 Just another day in tech where #nostalgia meets unnecessary complexity. 🎮💻
https://bottleship.pages.dev/ #reinventingthewheel #techhumor #browsergaming #HackerNews #ngated

🚀 Oh, #developers, you silly rebels! Always reinventing the wheel when you could just use the browser's clunky, out-of-the-box #magic. Keep pouring that #artisanal #JavaScript #tea, while the rest of us sip on a robust brew of "why bother?" 🍵
https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/03/why-dont-more-developers-use-the-platform/ #reinventingthewheel #browser #whybother #HackerNews #ngated

🎉BREAKING NEWS: 'Pi 1.0'—yet another monument to the overachievers’ guide to reinventing the wheel! 🚀 This "hardened" agent harness is here to solve the problem no one knew they had, with a user base that's as imaginary as its impact. Congrats on evolving into yet another "minimal" tool that perfectly strikes the balance between doing nothing and achieving less. 🙄🔧
https://earendil.com/posts/pi-1-0/ #Pi10 #ReinventingTheWheel #MinimalTools #TechSatire #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated

👨‍💻✨ Oh look, another groundbreaking project to reinvent the wheel—now with 100% more #buzzwords and zero documentation! 🚀💥 Good luck deciphering this masterpiece with its whopping five stars. 🌟🔍
https://tangled.org/burrito.space/bez #reinventingthewheel #zerodocumentation #techfail #startupstruggles #HackerNews #ngated

🐒 Oh joy, another #GitHub #adventure where someone thinks porting #DSPy to #BEAM is the next moon landing. 🚀 Apparently, we need to juggle declarative self-improving language models like circus clowns for #Elixir now. 🤹‍♂️ Because who doesn’t love the thrill of reinventing the wheel in the most convoluted way possible? 🙄
https://github.com/deepfates/imp #LanguageModels #ReinventingTheWheel #HackerNews #ngated

In an epic quest to reinvent the wheel 🔄, the article boasts a "revolutionary" system for computer use that reads more like a GitHub buzzword salad 🥗. Spoiler alert: It's basically just #tinkering with open-source drivers and benchmarks 🛠️.
https://github.com/trycua/cua #reinventingthewheel #buzzwordsalad #opensource #technews #HackerNews #ngated

🚀 Oh, look! #GLM decided to play infrastructure architect and built its own #inference #playground. 🎢 Because clearly, the world was desperately lacking in tech companies reinventing the wheel. 🙄
https://z.ai/blog/glm-built-its-inference-infrastructure #TechInnovation #ReinventingTheWheel #InfrastructureArchitecture #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, the timeless tale of someone reinventing the wheel with Linux—because who needs reliable services when you can spend your weekends SSH-ing into a Raspberry Pi? 🤖🔧 Congrats on discovering for the millionth time that backup storage is more complex than a Rubik's cube. 🎉
https://smarmelling.com/posts/creating-backup-storage-sucks.html #reinventingthewheel #Linux #RaspberryPi #backupstorage #techhumor #weekendprojects #HackerNews #ngated

🤦‍♂️ Ah, the classic tale of tech wizards reinventing the wheel! Why rely on a simple git config command when you can write a convoluted script for years? 🧙‍♂️🔮 Because who doesn’t love executing a daily ritual of unnecessary complexity? 🙄
https://ryangreenberg.com/til/git-branches-by-commit-date/ #techwizards #reinventingthewheel #unnecessarycomplexity #gitconfig #scriptinghumor #dailyrituals #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, joyous day! Another 🤪 #tutorial on how to build microscopic software nobody asked for, because apparently our hard drives are just too cavernous. Dive headfirst into this riveting 15-minute spectacle where bytes go on Atkins and programmers learn how to reinvent the wheel one byte at a time. 🐢🔍
https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html #microscopicsoftware #reinventingthewheel #programmingbytes #softwaredevelopment #HackerNews #ngated

🎩🤡 Oh, look! Another programmer pretending to "innovate" by reinventing the wheel... in Rust! Because nothing screams "cutting-edge" like rehashing #Scala concepts with a side of benchmark obsession. 🛠️🔨
https://lordgoati.us/blog/tail-call/ #programming #innovation #reinventingthewheel #Rust #benchmarks #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, look! Yet another brave soul who decided to reinvent the wheel 🔄, but this time in #Rust. Apparently, the universe just couldn't exist without Ferrox, the cutting-edge answer to a question nobody asked. 🌐 Who needs already-proven tools when you can spend a few days crafting your own misunderstood masterpiece, right? 🎨
https://www.fratepietro.com/2026/ferrox-rust-gguf-inference-engine/ #reinventingthewheel #programming #creativity #techhumor #softwaredevelopment #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, look! 🎉 Another tech giant decided to reinvent the wheel—except this time, it's in the form of overly hyped server software that promises to revolutionize...something. 🤔 Maybe next time they'll create a "Cloudflare Toaster" to solve world hunger. 🍞🚀
https://os.cloudflare.app/ #techgiants #reinventingthewheel #serversoftware #innovation #humor #CloudflareToaster #HackerNews #ngated

🚀 Why write our own C/C++ engines? Because who doesn't love reinventing the wheel 🔄 when perfectly good libraries already exist? 😂 Why settle for a 9.1 GiB virtualenv when you can have a 66 MiB binary of pure, self-inflicted pain? 🎉
https://localai.io/blog/why-we-write-our-own-engines/ #reinventingthewheel #softwaredevelopment #programming #humor #technews #HackerNews #ngated

🚀 Ah, the classic teenage delusion: thinking a few gears make you an "engineer" 🤖. This GitHub saga is less about innovation and more about reinventing the wheel—literally. But hey, at least mom is impressed with your "revolutionary" science project! 😂🔧
https://github.com/tom-ilan/cycloidal_gearbox #teenageengineering #GitHubSaga #reinventingthewheel #humor #scienceproject #HackerNews #ngated

🛠️💡Ah, the classic tale of a programmer who bravely forges a new path because updating firmware is just too mainstream. 🌙 Apparently, reinventing the wheel is the new "I fixed it!"—except now with extra steps and the same blue-light blinding you at 2 AM. 🙄🔧
https://driftformac.app/ #programmerlife #firmwareupdate #reinventingthewheel #techhumor #late-nightcoding #HackerNews #ngated

🎩 Behold the software savant who transformed a terminal into a bloated 6.2MB #Go monstrosity because, apparently, fzf's elegance was too mainstream. 🚀 Bravo for reinventing the wheel with a square! 🙃
https://github.com/matheuzgomes/decoreba #softwaredevelopment #terminalinnovation #programming #fzf #reinventingthewheel #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

Oh wow, someone built a GPT-2 knockoff with the power of pure #C and #CUDA. 🤯 Because nothing says "cutting edge AI" like reinventing the wheel with handwritten backprop in a language that's older than the internet itself. 🚀💾
https://github.com/JustVugg/nanoeuler #GPT2Knockoff #AI #ReinventingTheWheel #CuttingEdgeTech #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, because the world was desperately crying out for yet another #compiler written in #Python by yet another programmer convinced they've reinvented the wheel 🔄. This "tiny" invention is apparently 180 lines of code, but feels like 180 reasons to find a new hobby 🤦‍♂️.
https://healeycodes.com/a-tiny-compiler-for-data-parallel-kernels #reinventingthewheel #programming #humor #technews #HackerNews #ngated

In the grand tradition of reinventing the wheel 🚀, someone has taught a *bucket* to speak #Git. 🎩 Bravo! 🥳 Because clearly, the world was desperately waiting for object storage to masquerade as a filesystem, all in the name of... progress? 🎉
https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/objgit/ #reinventingthewheel #bucket #objectstorage #progress #innovation #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the classic "we need a new build system" spiel! Because clearly, the existing 8 million weren't enough 🤦‍♂️. Let's reinvent the wheel again, but this time with more AI and buzzwords! 🚀
https://yoebuild.org/blog/time-for-a-new-build-system/ #newbuildsystem #reinventingthewheel #AIbuzzwords #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

Wow. They just invented ... the while loop.

Apparently "loop engineering" is the new programming?

Link: https://www.techtimes.com/articles/318828/20260622/claude-code-loop-engineering-stop-prompting-start-designing-autonomous-agent-workflows.htm

#LLMs #ReinventingTheWheel

🌳🤔🎉 Ah, yes, the classic tale of reinventing the wheel because, why not? Let's all cheer for #Oak, the grandiose #solution to a problem that doesn't exist, brought to you by a #dev who's bravely ignoring Git's 18-year head start. 📅🔄
https://oak.space/blog #reinventingthewheel #Git #startup #humor #HackerNews #ngated

🔢🤓 Breaking news: everything you ever learned about math is wrong, #logarithms are the universal truth! 💡 But wait—JavaScript isn't working, so good luck rendering those groundbreaking equations. Let's all just agree this blog post is the mathematical equivalent of reinventing the wheel, only to realize it's still round. 🌀
https://alexkritchevsky.com/2026/05/25/everything-is-logarithms.html #mathnews #JavaScript #issues #reinventingthewheel #groundbreakingequations #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, another 🦄 brave soul who decided to reinvent the wheel by writing a #C++ ray tracer from scratch. Apparently, using AI is a crutch for the weak💪, so let's clap for a project that prefers #masochism over modern solutions. Maybe next, they'll churn their own butter and invent electricity too. ⚡✨
https://github.com/themartiano/luz #raytracer #reinventingthewheel #programmer #humor #techsarcasm #HackerNews #ngated

🚀🎉 Welcome to the "future" of email, where we proudly reinvent the wheel by shuffling menu items and reminding you we exist. 🥳 Because apparently, "move from Gmail" and "download our app" are the groundbreaking innovations we've all been waiting for. 🙄📧
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/the-future-of-email/ #emailinnovation #futureofemail #reinventingthewheel #technews #appdownload #HackerNews #ngated

🎨 Wow, a graphics guy spent four months crafting a "Tiny Shading Language" for his offline renderer—because who doesn't love reinventing the wheel on their days off? 🚀 And surprise, surprise, he admits he didn't even understand #compilers when he started! 🙃 #ReinventingTheWheel #GraphicsProbs
https://agraphicsguynotes.com/posts/making_a_shading_langauge_for_my_offline_renderer/ #TinyShadingLanguage #GraphicsRendering #OfflineRenderer #ReinventingTheWheel #HackerNews #ngated

🤦‍♂️ Oh, look! Someone decided to revive the 1980s by writing a web server in #ARM64 assembly—because obviously, the world was clamoring for that. 🙄 Instead of using anything remotely practical like #Nginx, let's waste time reinventing the wheel with raw syscalls, because, why not? 🚀
https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/ #webserver #assembly #retrocoding #reinventingthewheel #HackerNews #ngated

TECH HOUR: Warehousing Your Data: A No-Nonsense Guide to the Right DBMS in 2026

https://goodstrat.com/2026/03/27/tech-hour-warehousing-your-data-a-no-nonsense-guide-to-the-right-dbms-in-2026/

TECH HOUR: Snowflake’s Cortex Code: The Agentic Reckoning

https://goodstrat.com/2026/03/26/tech-hour-snowflakes-cortex-code-the-agentic-reckoning/

@gospodin @bimmer has NOBODY heard of hexagonal close packing?

#waffe #HCP #reinventingTheWheel

"🤔 Oh, joy! Another blog post that promises to reinvent the wheel with #HTMX while bemoaning the good old days when web pages were faster than molasses in January. 🎉 Spoiler alert: it’s all about the same old frameworks wrapped in new buzzwords. 🚀"
https://elijahm.com/posts/local_first_htmx/ #reinventingthewheel #webdevelopment #techbuzzwords #blogpost #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated

🚀 Welcome to the thrilling world of "reinventing the wheel," where alpha nerds pretend to be chess grandmasters by copypasting code from GitHub! 🤖🎉 Witness the groundbreaking innovation of AI writing AI to play a game humans have mastered, because why solve real problems when you can just automate a board game. 🙃♟️
https://github.com/koogle/mlx-playground/tree/main/chesszero #reinventingthewheel #AIinnovation #chessgrandmasters #GitHub #automation #boardgames #HackerNews #ngated

Well, got a basic help handling. The abstraction feels just a tad rough but it may be okay? Mostly, I don't want to require someone to always add --help to the commands.

> ./CliHostingWithAbstractionsOnly
info: CliHostingWithAbstractionsOnly.ExampleRootCommand[0] I'm running! False
info: CliHostingWithAbstractionsOnly.MyService[0] Doing something

> ./CliHostingWithAbstractionsOnly --help
I need help! 1

> ./CliHostingWithAbstractionsOnly --bob
I need help! 1
fail: CliHostingWithAbstractionsOnly.ExampleRootCommand[0] Unknown argument: --bob

I might consider implementing global arguments, but I'm leaning away from that. Instead, I will probably implement common argument sets that can be injected via DI instead.

But, not bad coding for an hour?

#CSharp #ReinventingTheWheel

🍕 Wow, a #PHP #framework that's not dead—just bloated like a post-pizza nap. 🎉 Introducing the latest "revolution" by Jeremie: more #bloat on top of bloat, but hey, at least it's not #Laravel, right? 🚀 Who knew reinventing the wheel could be so... bloated? 😜
https://github.com/jeremie5/dataphyre #Jeremie #ReinventingTheWheel #DeveloperHumor #HackerNews #ngated

What I find fascinating with the whole tech bubble and Musk is how far it will go to ignore prior art and make believe innovation because technology that appeared outside of the USA and the tech bubble must be ignored.

Running self driving things in tunnels under a city is a solve problem since the 80s and has been deployed pretty widely.

#technology #subway #selfdriving #elonmusk #reinventingTheWheel #techbubble

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/08/autonomous-teslas-still-a-pipe-dream-in-boring-company-tunnels/

Now at #RDAPlenary - The FAIR Digital Object Concept

FAIR Digital object:
Representation of research data & other digital assets that contains all information required for FAIRness. It has:
- data content
- referenced & identified by a persitent ID
- has properties described by metadata, e.g. type

I feel like i'm at library&information science 101. What's new? #excusemycriticism #reinventingthewheel

https://fairdo.org/

@dabeaz

I find warnings about not #ReinventingTheWheel excessive. Yes, it makes sense to avoid in production, but it has definite value in learning and in R&D. We don't really know how the wheel was invented. We don't know about the false starts & dead ends encountered while trying.

The utility in attempting to solve a previously solved problem is that we gain insight into *how* it was solved in the first place (and maybe get ideas about how to solve other related or more general problems).

@ethanschoonover They've improved the keyboard shortcuts and UI over time. Even Text Services is now supported. That said, I'd be much happier with real Mac-assed Mac software.

Of course, SwiftUI/Catalyst software has it's own challenges in this regard. #reinventingthewheel

#WebComponents, #webdev, and #galaxybrain moment :jeb:

Why don't we just fuse #DataAttributes and #CustomElements? All I see in the Internet is #reinventingTheWheel of getters and setters instead of augmenting *dataset* that can already get/setAttribute for you??? It makes no sense. :KEKW: