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Next.js environment variables fail silently - unless you force them to fail early. You can think of it as a loaded gun on the wall: it may sit there quietly for weeks, until one day it goes off in production.

Scripting isn't about perfection — it's about saving time. It should be pragmatic, fast, and never something you get stuck on. Over the past 10 years, I went from barely seeing the point of scripting to writing quick scripts in minutes — scripts that save time, and that time stack up over the years.

After 10 years on the web and dozens of projects, it still took me 3 years to build my own digital home - ratu.dev. It's basically a monument to my procrastination, and to idealism