A hammer wielded by a worker trained to hit things is a tool. A hammer wielded by someone intent on doing harm is a weapon. The hammer requires no metamorphosis yet starts as a tool and ends as a weapon. So, there must be a threshold where the tool becomes a weapon, what is it? When I write software, I don’t build things that do things, I build tools for doing things with.

Okay so this might be old news to some of ya’ll, but I just got it figured out, and any time you figure something out that didn’t have an immediate answer online, you should blog about it, right? The Problem I’ve been building a side project for a while that has an API server component. It’s built with Postgres in mind, but being that it’s something meant to be self-hosted in the future, I wanted to provide any potential users with the option of using whatever database they chose.