How my website works

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Product designer, podcaster, and writer, living in San Francisco.

My personal website is an over-engineered playground where I can tinker, learn new things, test new tools, break all the rules, and just scratch that itch deep in my brain that wants to understand how the hell web software works. My site has gone through several iterations over the years, and what you're seeing now (as of December 2021) is version 5. It's a borderline SaaS-ready web application with all sorts of bells and whistles like user account management, emails, comments, GraphQL, caching, end-to-end tests, and so much more. While it's somewhat fresh in my head, I wanted to document…

How my website works

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