From Scratch to Leveraging Open Source

One mindset shift I've been having lately as a developer: I don’t always need to build everything from scratch. Early on, I purposely wrote things myself to understand how they worked. It helped me build fundamentals and really understand the craft. But at a certain point, it becomes more valuable to leverage existing tools. Sometimes the best move is grabbing a solid open source project, tweaking it to fit your needs, or building a small plugin or extension around it. You still need to understand the system. But you also learn that good engineering is often about using the right building blocks, not reinventing them. Efficiency matters just as much as understanding. #SoftwareEngineering #OpenSource #BackendDevelopment #DevMindset #Programming

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