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Re:Parcel – A fast, zero configuration web application bundler by hinkley on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @03:48PM (#15855779)
One of the things I like about OSS and things like Stack Overflow is that in the old days, if I solved a hard problem, I solved it for a couple dozen people I worked with and maybe some folks at my next job. In some cases it made it hard to justify the work because I saved everybody 10 minutes a month and spent a week working on it. Which may be bad math for another reason: if I saved you the most aggravating ten minutes of your month, it may be worth many multiples of that ten minutes to you.

If I put the answer on the internet, then thousands of people benefit. If my work only save you five minutes one time, it still may be worth the bother in the grand scheme of things.

Which is a long way around to my point: this group is curating a bunch of build related modules which means I don't have to pay as much attention. That's not automatically a win (especially if they do a poor job of keeping up, which happens a lot in this space), but it has potential at least to be pretty useful.

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