Ilhan Negis

I got tired of choosing between “easy but invasive” or “privacy friendly but slow and limited.” Every time I looked at my own sites or client projects, I was forced to use Google Analytics (which tracks everything) or a privacy tool that felt half-baked and slow. So I finally decided to build the analytics tool I actually wanted to use myself. What problem were you trying to solve? I wanted...

After 20+ years of writing JavaScript for complex production systems, I got exhausted by how heavy modern web development had become. React, state managers, build tools… just to make a few HTML elements talk to each other. I kept thinking back to the elegance of Smalltalk, where objects simply send messages to each other. At the same time, I was deeply inspired by HTMX, which showed me how...