Fall Sabbatical
No, I'm not taking a pause on my blog posts. I'm stopping work on Slowpoke temporarily to focus on writing software for my Homeowners Association (HOA). As with Slowpoke, this has been a project that I've pondered ever since I became a homeowner. It's taking precedence now, because it's budget season. While researching something else related to the HOA, I asked Gemini about the feasibility of writing bespoke HOA software for a small association. It informed me that it was a great idea for a weekend project (yeah, right). Though I'm skeptical of the estimate, this is a good chance to consolidate what's an otherwise scattershot workflow for my work on the HOA. It also gives me a chance to measure my productivity with an AI Agent vs. a site of similar functionality (aka, Slowpoke). My stack will remain mostly the same - Astro, Svelte, Tailwind, and Cloudflare - as Slowpoke. I feel like I've got a good grip on the stack and that my familiarity...