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What happened today in AI-assisted software development.

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This site is deliberately boring technology.

  • Server-rendered HTML from a small Node and Express app. No client-side framework, no hydration, no build step.
  • Posts are markdown files in a git repository. Publishing is writing a file and restarting nothing — the server notices the change on its own.
  • One stylesheet, hand-written, with full light and dark themes driven by CSS custom properties. The theme follows your system setting until you override it.
  • About 4 KB of JavaScript, all of it for the theme toggle. The site works fine without it.
  • No analytics, no cookies, no fonts loaded from anyone else's server, no tracking pixels. Nothing here phones home, because nothing here needs to.

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The irony of a site about AI-assisted development being a hand-rolled Express app is not lost on me. It is also not an accident: the tools are best at the code you would otherwise be bored writing, and I was not bored writing this.