> I decided that learning the tar file format and making my own tar extractor would probably be faster than waiting for tar. And I was right; before the day was

> I decided that learning the tar file format and making my own tar extractor would probably be faster than waiting for tar. And I was right; before the day was over, I had a working tar extractor, and I had successfully extracted my 1.1TiB tarball. That's awesome! I once did the same thing (something else, not a tar). I was on discord at the time and typed in messages about the stupid stuff I noticed while writing my own code. A guy told me I'm an asshole and a shit programmer/personality because I wasn't willing to use stick with/figure out standard tools + blocked me. Which is weird because why wouldn't you want more tools available. I gave away my source at the end Don't be afraid of writing your own stuff!