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Type-safe server actions without the ceremony
Blogen’s mutations are Server Actions, not a second API. A small db helper, generated Database types, and a mapper back to the shapes the UI already expected.
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Type-safe server actions without the ceremony
Blogen’s mutations are Server Actions, not a second API. A small db helper, generated Database types, and a mapper back to the shapes the UI already expected.
Food
The case for a slower kitchen
Weeknight cooking does not have to feel like a deploy. A quieter kitchen, a radio, and a single test: would I still make this if nobody else was coming over?
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A weekend in the hills above the city
A short ridge walk above town: gravel, a radio tower, and the useful shock of seeing the city as a map instead of a commute. Fruit on the way down, cash only.
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Why small cities still have the best bookstores
Inventory is easy to scale. Taste is not. A short case for the desk-staffed bookshop that remembers what you bounced off last winter and still takes the risk of putting something in your hands.
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A week without notifications
Seven days with badges off. The surprising part was not deep focus — it was how many “urgent” messages were just someone else’s timeline leaking onto the lock screen.
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Food
The case for a slower kitchen
Weeknight cooking does not have to feel like a deploy. A quieter kitchen, a radio, and a single test: would I still make this if nobody else was coming over?
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A weekend in the hills above the city
A short ridge walk above town: gravel, a radio tower, and the useful shock of seeing the city as a map instead of a commute. Fruit on the way down, cash only.
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Inventory is easy to scale. Taste is not. A short case for the desk-staffed bookshop that remembers what you bounced off last winter and still takes the risk of putting something in your hands.
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A week without notifications
Seven days with badges off. The surprising part was not deep focus — it was how many “urgent” messages were just someone else’s timeline leaking onto the lock screen.
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