Taggart Tech

I've been running a Discord server for about four and a half years now. When I started streaming during the pando, I had no idea that I would end up building a community. Hell, I'd never even used Discord before. I only knew what it was because I had to stop my students from using it.

"Why are you reimplementing $feature when you can just import $library? You're reinventing the wheel!"

I think the warning against reinventing wheels—and presumably other simple machines—has blinded us to more subtle truths about when it's okay to build something that already exists, but closer to home.