"Build your own X to understand it" is advice so common it has stopped meaning anything. I repeated it for years without being able to say why it worked, which is the same as not understanding it. So I built the wrong things, learned less than I told myself I was learning, and kept the slogan a...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/valentynkit/you-dont-understand-a-system-until-youve-rebuilt-it-2e94)