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Vibe code is legacy code
Code that nobody understands is tech debt
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Migrating from Supabase
Our journey from Supabase to Postgres and Render
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From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth
The perils of logging in
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Code search is hard
Searching code at scale without employing a search team is hard
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What we learned copying all the best code assistants
From GitHub Copilot to ChatGPT to Claude Artifacts, how Val Town borrowed the best of all the code generation tools
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How we built Townie – an app that generates fullstack apps
Like Claude Artifacts, but with a backend and database