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The boring stack, and why clients like it
Astro, TypeScript and Postgres aren't exciting. That's the point: in two years someone else can hire for them.
Clients rarely ask what I build with. They ask whether they’ll be stuck with me. The honest answer is the stack.
Pick what can be hired for
Astro for sites, TypeScript everywhere, Postgres for anything that needs to remember. None of it is new. All of it has a big pool of developers who could pick up the project tomorrow.
Small tools, few of them
Every dependency is a promise to update it. I’d rather write forty lines than add a package that does four hundred things, and I’d rather use the platform than either.
Excitement goes into the product
The interesting part of a ferry booking is the ferry. The stack should get out of the way.