I have apparently hit the ceiling. I have, for the past few years, been slowly working on a custom framework off of which to build my sites. Something that jived with how I like to work. Something that would feel natural to me. It turns out all that work just came crashing down.
For the past few months, I had been building synapsefiringsquad.com in this framework. This past weekend, I was realizing the extent of work I would need to do in order to create simple status messages for the team members, and I found myself thinking it shouldn't be this hard. I have some fair experience with Drupal, and have been working on a project in it. So I said, "Fuck it, I'll just rebuild SFS in Drupal!"
And I did.
And it took 8 hours.
Months of work, entirely recreated in just 8 hours.
And that's when I realized that I had lost. I tried, and I lost. It's blatantly obvious of course, but I just can't compete with a community of developers who have been working on perfecting a product for years.
So now, of course, I need to make a decision. I have built a number of sites using my framework. They work well enough, so that's something to be proud of, but I can't justify maintaining the core code in light of the fact that there are just easier ways. I need to decide if I want to scrap them entirely, or rebuild them with other systems. It could be a good excuse to pick up some new skills. I maybe also have two businesses to run and won't have time for any of that. I guess we'll see.
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