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Erik Hermansen

Create Decent App 2.0 Design Thoughts

I've got some developers interested in writing apps for the Decent Portal. And it occurred to me there is one important thing for me to fix in the create-decent-app (CDA) project generator to avoid annoying them. If you're not familiar with vendoring, it's when your…

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Erik Hermansen

Open Source Joy for Publii

I've been recently acquainted with Publii (their website), and just love it to death. Have you noticed this website serves pretty fast? It's because all content is static and served from a regional CDN. (No scripts, e.g. PHP, HTMX, executing on the web server.) Publii…

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Erik Hermansen

Why LLM Users Still Need Apps

The theory others propose: it will be the "Death of Apps" tomorrow, or maybe next Tuesday. We will arrive at a place where users speak their wishes to a well-connected LLM, and it just gets done. No knob twiddling, button pushing, or even a glance…

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