We write when we have something concrete to say. About performance, architecture decisions, and the things that actually matter on the web.
lith is the open-source runtime under our multiplayer Go apps on SQLite and Datastar: one writer, one render per tick, compressed HTML streams, all measured.
We built a Kanban board on which several people drag cards at the same time, rendered entirely on the server, and measured it against PLANKA on a slowed phone.
Conway's Game of Life, multiplayer and real-time, without application JavaScript: built with php-via, our PHP framework on OpenSwoole, and Datastar.
127 KB transferred vs. 60,589 KB uncompressed · 2 min of gameplay
We rebuilt Vercel's Next.js AI chatbot as a server-rendered hypermedia app and measured both on a mid-range phone over slow 4G.
