I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I'm even slower when someone's watching. 👀

I try to always start with clarifying questions, but sometimes they land wrong if assumptions have already been made.. or if the interviewer is totally unfamiliar with the options I'm considering.

Congrats! And thank you for making a difference.

It's not that I'm morally opposed to Seattle. I'm just opposed to being there. And Tesla. I'm morally opposed to Tesla.

If I need a DB, I'd rather just self host the whole thing. We're small enough not to care too much about availability and latency.

I've seen a few interesting projects where a static CMS is deployed as part of the static site and MD is visually edited and committed to Github. I haven't found any that don't require a DB to manage keys. Payload CMS looks promising, but it seems like even the content depends on a DB.

I've done this exact Centralia to Seattle route because the Amtrak schedule sucks. It takes a while, and bathroom access is an issue. But definitely doable.