Just don’t use your wife’s cutting board, like I did. It had a big crack and I figured I was upcycling. She didn’t notice it was the same and weeks later I got in trouble when she asked where the small cutting board was and I pointed at the butter dish 😅

I made myself a butter knife holder by using a magnet

I agree 100%! Butt I’m joking about a façade of optimization. Making code confusing and hard to interface with by making up custom data types. And for more context, their main project is a UI that takes >10 seconds to load and uses 2+GB of RAM. But at least the UUIDs in the SQLite DB are stored as hex instead of strings 😅 (even though I think everything in SQLite is actually stored as a string under the hood?)

I do still admire the desire for optimization - but it might be some sort of coping mechanism to ignore the insanely unoptimized bits of the project

I have a coworker who does stuff like this and it’s always low-benefit optimizations that cost the team time to interface with - but I do still kind of love it