Complexity is a form of procrastination. In the developer world, we call it “yak shaving”—spending days configuring a build pipeline for a blog that has no readers. We worship the god of tooling while the altar of shipping gathers dust.
High-output creators understand a fundamental truth: The user does not care about your tech stack. They care about the experience. They care about the speed. They care about the value. Everything else is vanity.
Radical Simplicity
My philosophy for the “Lab” stack is simple: Choose tools that disappear. If you are fighting your framework, you are losing the war.
- Astro: The modern web was drowning in JavaScript. Astro threw us a lifeline. It ships zero client-side JS by default. It respects the user’s CPU and battery. It is the return to the “document” web, but with superpowers.
- Tailwind CSS: Yes, it looks ugly in the HTML. But it allows you to design in the browser, at the speed of thought. No context switching. No “naming things” fatigue. Just pure visual composibility.
- Vite: Speed is a feature. Not just for the user, but for the developer. Waiting 30 seconds for a server reform dampens the creative spark. Instant HMR keeps you in the flow state.
The Cost of “New”
Every new dependency is a liability. Every abstraction layer is a potential point of failure. The most robust code is the code you never wrote. Build with boring technology. boring is stable. Boring is fast. Boring lets you sleep at night so you can wake up and create.
