A Weekend with a Side Project
No stakeholders, no deadlines, no Jira tickets. Just you and a dumb idea that might turn into something.
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No stakeholders, no deadlines, no Jira tickets. Just you and a dumb idea that might turn into something.
The best developer tools do one thing well and get out of your way. A love letter to focused software.
Static sites aren't a step backwards. They're what you get when you take performance and simplicity seriously.
The frameworks will change. The databases will change. What survives is the clarity of your thinking.
Take the Astro + Datastar + Vercel AI SDK stack from this series and run it entirely on your own machine with Ollama — no API key, no per-token cost, no data leaving your laptop. It's a one-import change.
Stream typed, structured data from the Vercel AI SDK and watch a card build itself field by field in a Datastar UI — using streamText with output, the v6 replacement for streamObject. No React.