Rabbit Trails

My pain

1. Starting things is hard. I can't believe how hard it is. All this experience I have jumping in to 10-year-old code bases, building a mental model, working within and enhancing the architecture—super valuable and marketable, barely any help with what I'm trying to do now. (Ok, not true. See 3.2. All the experience still warns me off mistakes.)
2. I have found no plausible replacement for Rails on the server, but I want to use Svelte on the client. And Svelte is my canvas: that's where I …