Yeah, the feeling that hits when you finally realize you spent THIS MUCH EFFORT in a problem and you realize you can do more with less.

> I made it because at that point in my career I simply didn't know that ansible existed

Channels Mark Twain. "Sorry for such a long letter, i didn't have the time to make it shorter."

This is why I make it a goal to have a very good knowledge about the tools I use. So many problems, can be solved by piping a few unix tools together or have a whole chapter in the docs (emacs, vim, postgres,…) about how to solve it.

I write software when the scripts are no longer suitable.