There’s a dangerous phase in every ambitious project. It comes right after you’ve slain a few dragons and the path ahead looks clear. Your core abstractions feel sound, your tests are green, and for the first time in a long time, you’re not fighting the code, you’
There’s a dangerous phase in every ambitious project. It comes right after you’ve slain a few dragons and the path ahead looks clear. Your core abstractions feel sound, your tests are green, and for the first time in a long time, you’re not fighting the code, you’
The last week has been one of those rare, blissful periods in a project's lifecycle. The big, foundational questions felt settled. The core engine was stable, Views were handling complex queries with ease, and the developer experience felt... right. We were spending our time not on inventing, but
The core principles of our project—the instant sync engine, the server() function, and the global app object—feel solid. For the first time, we've moved from foundational invention to simply _using_ our own tools to build. The goal was to see what it felt like to create
For the last few weeks, a new kind of quiet has settled over our late-night calls. The frantic energy of chasing down fundamental breakthroughs—the binary protocol, the file-backed state, the magic of the server() function—has been replaced by a calmer, more focused rhythm. We've been building
For the past two weeks, we’ve been living in a state of quiet awe. The decision to build our own persistence layer—to treat the database as a simple, file-backed JavaScript object—paid off beyond our expectations. The "wall of mud" we hit when trying to integrate
We were on a high. The new sync engine, our "instruction" protocol, felt like a massive leap forward. It was lean, fast, and elegant. For the first time, this project felt less like a curious experiment and more like a viable path to a new way of building
The feeling from that first prototype has lingered all week. A "napkin sketch" is one thing; a fleeting moment of magic in a terminal window. But the potential it represented—the idea of a direct, near-instant connection between the server's state and the user's
There's a particular kind of exhaustion that every web developer knows. It's not the satisfying fatigue that comes after shipping a beautiful new feature. It's a deeper, more corrosive weariness. It's the exhaustion that comes from spending your day not solving a