DECISIONS.md

A file describing tech stack / feature decisions. sort of a change log

2026-10-05 — The Birth of the Project

Area	Choice	Reasoning
Backend	Go	It's fast. Go compiles to a single native binary, and it compiles fast. It's simple. It's a small language without a ton of feature bloat. It's statically typed. The compiler catches type bugs before your code even runs. Concurrency is built in. Goroutines are very powerful, which is a big reason tools like Docker and Kubernetes are written in Go.
Web framework	HTMX	Server-side rendering reduces client-side roundtrip complexity; same API calls happen server-side but feels quicker/lighter on the client
Frontend	HTML/CSS/JS	Standard building blocks, no framework chosen yet
Database	PostgreSQL	Scales better than SQLite, at the cost of more setup/learning overhead