Message Board - “Letters”
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Made a message board for chatting with my girlfriend while she has no cell service, but does have access to a communal computer 💌
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Jun 25, 2025 05:52 AM
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letters
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Jun 25, 2025
Maeve headed off to the cascades and doesn’t have cell service, but does have access to a communal computer! We anticipated emailing, but she was unable to 2fa into gmail.
Luckily she has fleeting iPhone satellite coverage when at the peak of some hikes, so I sent a link to this site and we’re able to use this to chat.
Built this + the post in ~4 hours. Not bad! Would have taken wayyyy longer to add auth without LLM support. Would have been shorter if I didn’t spend time making awful ascii art.
Have really enjoyed my workflow of using
lazygit with vscode’s agent mode on claud 4.
Getting going with cloudflare workers for the first time and their sqlite offering
d1 was very very straightforward. Barely read any docs. I’ll be using it often going forward.SvelteKit’s component structure makes chunking work for LLMs great. Also love that it’s my go to framework at this point, yet I’ve deployed it to several cloud providers this year all just using the “adapters”, and I don’t have to understand 100% of that abstraction.
I deployed to cloudflare workers with this guide:
Linked from this svelte one:
I listened to this while I built it:
I need to start packing for this cross country move in 2 weeks but keep putting it off
¯\(ツ)/¯