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Astro Starter: a review without the pitch
What the starter does well, what it does not contain at all, and where it tripped me up while building this site. With numbers from the repository.
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How tatarverse.cc is built
A look inside: the stack, MDX content, a design system across seven accents, client scripts, hooks, the agent layer and real bugs.
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How xima.keeps is built
A local Android organiser: Tauri 2, a Rust core, SQLite with FTS5, alarms through AlarmManager and spoken-phrase parsing. Not a line of network code.
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How xima.music is built
An offline Android player: three layers with hard boundaries, Media3 in Kotlin, data in Rust, SolidJS on top, and the bugs that shaped it.
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How color.xima.work is built
388 gradients where the catalogue is a stylesheet and the copy-ready code is derived from it at build time. Architecture, search, Tailwind.