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With all the insanity around flying and because i'm a massive train nerd, I learned last week that there is indeed a sleeper train from NYC to ATL and I immediately decided to take the flight refund and take the train instead. So here I am at hour 1 of an 18 hour journey down south.

I'm planning on hacking around a ramen review/rating site because I'm tired of influencer-baited reviews that tell you absolutely nothing about the bowls, shops, etc. Furthermore, the "best Ramen in NYC" lists are either woefully outdated or lack any detail beyond basic adjectives.

I wanted to try out remix 3 but it's not ready yet so instead I'm going to use tanstack start for this... let's begin. For the UI my partner wanted something "2000s era" feeling, and I think I'm going to take that to mean maximalist. I also want to try out anime.js and go a bit too crazy with this.

all of this project is loosely inspired by the incredible ramendb.supleks.jp This website is absolutely top tier for its accuracy and fairness in reviewing ramen in Japan.

project setup done... now for the slog of downloading dependencies on amtrak wifi :(

okay through project setup, again in the vein of going overboard for this project, i'm setting up workOS because i've already gotten a few ramen friends to agree to contribute to this silly thing and I want to give them a better experience than writing markdown