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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 Furthermore, the "best Ramen in NYC" lists are either woefully outdated or lack any detail beyond basic adjectives.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.

Preface all the above with a few major issues: 1. I am not a frontend engineer 2. I am not a designer 3. I have never used tanstack start or tanstack router 4. I am not a designer or frontend engineer With all that said... let's see how it goes.

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

boilerplate time... more dependencies...