Haha! I did, but not for a few years, until I took up Pascal and MacOS and then wanted to find a way around the 32k text limit that was a stubbornly difficult problem to solve for a while (and was the original reason that BBEdit became so popular).
replyTrying to correctly render a vertical blinking cursor on top of proportional fonts took me ages to get right...ish.
I learned that I really enjoy working on fine details, hyperspecializing, and doing deep dives into particular systems --- all the things you do to be a competent software security person --- but that end-to-end application construction, front-end to backend to operations --- is necessarily a multiple person project, unless it's like a crazy labor of love that you dedicate all your free time to.
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