Inside of me there are two wolves. One of them is named DIY, who says “build everything from scratch. Only you know what you need. You will learn the most this way.” The other wolf is the do-work wolf, who says “use what’s already been built. It’s easier and you can focus on the important stuff. ‘You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake’… By giving up vain individuality, you can leapfrog the toils of mundane decisions, and make faster progress in areas that really matter” (from The Ruby on Rails Doctrine).

Linux

July 17: I wipe my Windows 11 PC and install Bazzite, a version of Fedora Silverblue optimized for gaming. I pick it because it has excellent out-of-the-box support for Nvidia GPUs and Fedora Silverblue’s immutable nature ensures that everything will probably never be broken.

Today: I wipe my Bazzite PC and install Omarchy, “an opinionated Arch + Hyprland Setup by DHH”. I picked it because of the pre-setup tiling window manager and all the little utilities.

Today+3 hours: Should I wipe my Omarchy PC and install NixOS and recreate Omarchy from the ground up, because I don’t like that Omarchy/Arch was missing Flatpaks, how it used Chromium instead of Zen Browser, and Arch still feels like a scary mountain of technical debt the second I think about it. Example: the first time I rebooted, it went to the rootfs safety console because… no one knows.

Personal site

2019-08-18: I restart my personal site and use vanilla HTML and CSS.

2019-11-11: I restart my personal site and use Svelte.

2020-06-07: I restart my personal site and use vanilla HTML and CSS.

2020-06-23: I restart my personal site and use Parcel and Tailwind.

2020-09-22: I restart my personal site and use Snowpack.

2021-07-07: I restart my personal site and use a custom build system.

2022-03-11: I restart my personal site and use Vite and Windi CSS.

2022-04-27: I restart my personal site and use Astro.

2022-08-17: I restart my personal site and use Astro with a new theme.

2023-01-25: I restart my personal site and use vanilla HTML and CSS with Pico CSS.

2023-07-13: I restart my personal site and use vanilla HTML and CSS with color and motion.

2024-03-27: I restart my personal site and use Astro (again) with a game-and-watch-but-beige design.

2024-09-05: I restart my personal site and use Tailwind CSS.

2025-01-26: I restart my personal site and use Astro 5.1 and Tailwind 4.0.

Yazzy

2024-06-22: I start Yazzy with Bun, Elysia, Readability, and vanilla HTML.

2024-07-03: I use Tailwind and SQLite via raw SQL.

2024-08-02: I restart Yazzy and use Astro.

2025-01-15: I restart Yazzy and use The Perfect Stack, which is Bun, Hono, Drizzle, and HTMX.

Today: Should I restart Yazzy and use Astro again?