The first post in this series was about the decision — why I’m starting small, why the earlier project ideas never got built. This one is about the day I actually wrote code, and about what broke along the way — because almost nothing worked on the first try, and I think that part is more interesting than if it had gone perfectly. The scaffold itself For the backend I used FastAPI and uvicorn, managed with uv — fast, and about as simple as it gets to wire up: a @app.get(path="/") decorator over the handler function. For the frontend, React and TypeScript, scaffolded with Vite. ...