Trying to be "strategic" about tech debt and "using it to my advantage".

As much as I'd like to be mad about the tech debt I see at work, managing it in a nearly 4 year old side project has me changing my perspective.

Suddenly things feel different when you're in the driving seat

Anyway, ripping out the state should hopefully:
- Give me a decent API for the future
- Make the FE dumb
- Decouple the FE from its data store
- Allow me to make improvements without rewriting from scratch

Deciding to host this on my own infra as well, so I can get some decent metrics in NewRelic

Not that Sentry can't do the job, but when I'm moving core features out, I need to use tools that I'm confident with

I'm shaving my face daily now.

Might get laser done soon

I didn't know you could reliably do that, I thought LLMs would just find (or be instructed to) find workarounds

Oh! Didn't know that

I ended up having to revert once for another reason, but had TS not been there, it would've been 4 more reverts.

Feeling very vindicated for adding an eslint rule to ban type casting