Here's a thing I do: I write open source libraries that solve my problems. Bad libraries. And then, over the course of a year or two, I slowly improve them, until they are not so bad any more. I have gone through this pattern a few times now. SoundFile started out buggy and slow. Transplant crashed and froze very often. Org-Journal deleted journal entries every now and then. But then users found errors, and errors were fixed. And slowly, over time, these libraries transformed from buggy proto...
