{"id":28550,"date":"2026-07-07T23:37:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28550"},"modified":"2026-07-07T23:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:37:58","slug":"making-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28550","title":{"rendered":"Making tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I probably spend about 90% of my time making my own software tools, and only about 10% of my time actually using those tools to create content. But I still find the process to be very efficient.<\/p>\n<p>Using my own tools lets me create exactly the things that I want to create, without needing to struggle with somebody else&#8217;s idea of how I should be working. I know this approach would not appeal to everybody, but for me it works really well.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, making my own software tools is really fun. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I probably spend about 90% of my time making my own software tools, and only about 10% of my time actually using those tools to create content. But I still find the process to be very efficient. Using my own tools lets me create exactly the things that I want to create, without needing to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28550\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making tools&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28551,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28550\/revisions\/28551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}