Marginalia
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lived 1,169 days
Rewritten in three frameworks. Tracked the same eleven books each time.
v1 → v2 → v3
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1,169 days
born died
Autopsy
- Cause of death
- Rewrote it in a new framework and never finished
- Stack recovered
- Last words
“start over with app router”final commit · 13 November 2022
- Mood at death
- Guilt
- Lines of code
- 12,400
Obituary
Marginalia was a reading tracker: a list of books, a page count, a place for notes. The first version was finished in a month and worked.
It was then rebuilt in a second framework, for the component model, and in a third, for the routing. Each time the same eleven books were migrated by hand.
The fourth start is dated 13 November 2022 and contains a folder structure. No twelfth book was ever added.
What it taught me
Each rewrite felt like progress and shipped nothing. The eleven books did not care what rendered them.