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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: diy</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/diy.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2010-11-27T15:49:00+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>What are some things that most hackers used to do themselves but now use other people's software to do?</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2010/Nov/27/what-are-some-things/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2010-11-27T15:49:00+00:00</published><updated>2010-11-27T15:49:00+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2010/Nov/27/what-are-some-things/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;My answer to &lt;a href="https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-things-that-most-hackers-used-to-do-themselves-but-now-use-other-peoples-software-to-do/answer/Simon-Willison"&gt;What are some things that most hackers used to do themselves but now use other people&amp;#39;s software to do?&lt;/a&gt; on Quora&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Renting co-located servers. These days, most people just use virtual machines for their own personal projects.&lt;/p&gt;
    
        &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/hacking"&gt;hacking&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/quora"&gt;quora&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/diy"&gt;diy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
    

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