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The cool thing is that once you know how simple it is to self host (I certainly didn't know before, just used github), you learn a skill that you can apply to many different contexts, and understand better what actually goes on in systems you depend on. That's what these "tech should be invisible" people miss, where they tout that you should instead learn SASS solutions where you have zero ownership nor agency, instead of taking the time to learn transferable skills.




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