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> USES
> last updated: August 15, 2026
The recurring “what's your stack” question, answered once instead of forty times. Salvage inventory, not sponsored gear.
Build
- >TanStack Start + TanStack Router - the routing/prerendering frame this whole app runs on
- >Vite, via Bun - build tool and runtime
- >TypeScript everywhere, no exceptions carved out for “it's just a small file”
- >Tailwind CSS + a small shadcn/ui subset, restyled - not the default theme with a logo slapped on
Content Systems
- >MediaWiki for the wiki - plain, boring, and it's been solving “people editing shared pages” since before most of this stack existed
- >WordPress + WooCommerce for the blog and shop - same reasoning as MediaWiki: solved problems don't need reinventing
Hosting & Delivery
- >Static hosting over SSH/rsync, not a platform-managed deploy button - every deploy is a real, inspectable file transfer
- >Self-hosted fonts and assets, no third-party CDN in the request path for a page load - one fewer thing that can go down that isn't this site's own fault
- >GitHub for source control on the app itself
Why This List Exists
Mostly because enough people asked, and partly because a page like this is how you find your own next tool - most of what's above got picked the same way: someone else's honest “here's what I actually run” page, not an ad for it.