Oh, the legendary quest of crafting a #speedrun timer in #D for Deus Ex, because clearly, reinventing the wheel in the most roundabout way possible is the new trend. Enjoy the riveting adventures of "Baby's First Game Hack," where basic coding becomes a heroic saga.
https://bradley.chatha.dev/blog/linux-speedrun-timer-dlang/post/ #DeusEx #gamehack #codingadventures #reinventthewheel #HackerNews #ngated

Behold! The magnificent rtrvr.ai, where agents roll up their digital sleeves and craft their own tools, because why use existing resources when you can reinvent the wheel with AI? Apparently, creating tools out of thin air is the new McGuffin—the McGuffin Creation Protocol, if you will.
https://www.rtrvr.ai/blog/on-the-fly-toolgen #rtrvrai #AItools #McGuffinCreation #Innovation #ReinventTheWheel #HackerNews #ngated

Wow, another groundbreaking idea: let's reinvent the wheel with a DOM templating API because apparently, the current 1,000 #JavaScript #frameworks aren't quite enough. It's like saying, "Sure, my car has wheels, but wouldn't it be better if they were square?"
https://justinfagnani.com/2025/06/26/the-time-is-right-for-a-dom-templating-api/ #reinventthewheel #DOMtemplating #techhumor #innovation #HackerNews #ngated

Some brave soul decided to reinvent the wheel by building their own #mutex in C, because, apparently, mastering pre-existing solutions just wasn't challenging (or fun) enough. Instead of taking a nice walk outside, they've chosen to dance with futexes, as if Linux needed more accidental 'optimizations.'
https://blog.fredrb.com/2025/06/02/futex-fun/ #reinventthewheel #Cprogramming #futex #Linuxoptimization #codinghumor #HackerNews #ngated

Breaking News: A self-proclaimed "rebel" delivers the groundbreaking thesis that reinventing the wheel might actually be a good idea. Who knew that ignoring thousands of years of wisdom could lead to such profound conclusions? Meanwhile, the modern explorer bravely fights against the tyranny of common sense.
https://endler.dev/2025/reinvent-the-wheel/ #breakingnews #reinventthewheel #modernexplorer #rebellion #commonsense #HackerNews #ngated

Reinvent the Wheel

https://endler.dev/2025/reinvent-the-wheel/

Ah, yes, because everyone has been clamoring to handcraft their own one-time password algorithms instead of using the perfectly good ones that already exist. Clearly, the pinnacle of tech wizardry is reinventing wheels that came pre-invented.
https://blog.dogac.dev/how-do-one-time-passwords-work/ #techhumor #reinventthewheel #cybersecurity #one-timepasswords #programmingjokes #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the classic "let's reinvent the wheel" thought experiment, but this time in #Rust —because why use #Google when you can struggle with disk storage yourself? Stay tuned for Part 2: "Realizing this was a terrible idea and googling 'how to use Google'."
https://jdrouet.github.io/posts/202503170800-search-engine-part-1/ #reinventthewheel #programming #struggles #diskstorage #humor #HackerNews #ngated

So, you want to build a container image from scratch? Get ready to reinvent the wheel with the most over-explained #tarball #tutorial since 1995. Who knew stacking layers of "configurations" could be the new hipster sport?
https://danishpraka.sh/posts/build-a-container-image-from-scratch/ #containerimage #reinventthewheel #hipsterdevs #techtrends #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, part 1 of the "let's reinvent the wheel" series where we pretend building an #LLM is a unique concept . Spoiler: it's basically just another "Giles drops out" episode, only less entertaining.
https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/03/llm-from-scratch-10-dropout #ReinventTheWheel #TechHumor #HackerNews #GilesDropsOut #HackerNews #ngated

Let's reinvent the wheel by #coding a #BitTorrent client in #Go, because downloading #Debian hasn't been done enough already, right? Forget the power of existing #clients, we're all about reinventing this over-engineered bicycle. Also available in several languages, because #verbosity knows no borders.
https://blog.jse.li/posts/torrent/ #reinventthewheel #softwaredevelopment #HackerNews #ngated

Ah the frustration of knowing you've written code before that does something super similar to what you need to do now, but you simply cannot recall in what project you did that and none of your search terms are finding it.

Time to #ReinventTheWheel then!

So I was going to ditch the idea of a #physicsengine engine for #virgil and using either #box2c or physac, box2c is still in development and physac is not super accurate so in classic Alex fashion... Fuck it lets #reinventthewheel again!

I need to stop the mentality of 'it must perform perfectly' when I'm not even at version 1.0, yes 1.0 will release with bugs and slower performance but I can't push it off forever, think it's time to set a goal, version 1.0 in 1-2 months.

And the initial pass is done!

Not sure why rectangle collision isn't working but it's progress!