This Site Has No Database, But It Has a CMS, Comments, Likes, and Views
No server, no database, nothing for me to babysit — yet the likes save, the views count, and the comments are real. Here's where all of it actually goes.
No server, no database, nothing for me to babysit — yet the likes save, the views count, and the comments are real. Here's where all of it actually goes.
We made software dramatically easier to build and did almost nothing to make it easier to understand. Archify is the browser extension I built to close that gap — hover over any web app and see its components, APIs, and scripts.
A couple of weeks ago I said Archify was coming and put up a waitlist. That post ended with 'coming soon.' This one doesn't — Archify is live as a Chrome extension. Hover over any web app and see how it's built, and what it's quietly doing to you.
Claude Fable 5 — Anthropic's most powerful public model — got export-controlled and pulled for three weeks, then came back July 1. My take on what that whole episode actually means for developers.
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