> Spending 3 days on a password recovery form wasn’t probably worth your time…<p>Once you've done it once, re-use that.<p>And even when not re-used directly, there's knowledge learnt.<p>Heck, even using CHMOD for the first hundred times and all of the other problem solving (and, problem avoidance) arsenal built up.<p>The secret in the secret sauce is these increments that provide powerful mental as well as code tools. And of them, a reason I come back to HN a lot, is reflecting on how others do this.