building vs taping things together

Is there really a difference?

Yes..and..no..and..no.

The intended difference is that taped together works under demo load but not production load where as “built” does. But there’s a secret to taping stuff together that does handle production load.

“Hacky Js” Should work in theory. In 2024, computers are fast. You shouldn’t need “industrial strength code” or to spend time optimizing performance to get something that’ll scale. It should be possible to throw something hacky on a scaling system like Vercel or aws and It Just Scales. But when you do…something breaks. Something always goes wrong. So how do you pull off the fine art of shipping hacky js?

Get good.

One really great thing about getting good at fast programming is that you realize being good at fast programming is mostly about not making fatal mistakes. Don’t violate SPOT. Keep the code and data trans…