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The server islands are completely optional tho, if you don’t want to use them, you don’t have to. For a simple blog you can just use collections, and plain HTML/CSS.

I’ve used Astro for more complex applications, and it’s perfectly suitable for that too.

Of course, if you’re building an SPA, then it’s probably not the best choice.

The main differentiator is that I’m purely focussed on providing open source alternatives, whereas alternativeto does everything.

Having filters to better filter through the large list of alternatives is on my TODO list.

But in general, I think both (and many other directories) can co-exist without issues. I personally think alternativeto is a little mainstream anyway, whereas my directory is focussed on people who explicitly want to selfhost, but obviously there is overlap.

Personally I wouldn't use `@apply text-center` over just `text-aligh: center;`, but I do use `@apply text-red-300` or `@apply px-2`, simply because I like the set of defaults Tailwind comes with.

I tried building my own set of defaults, but eventually decided that just using the Tailwind ones is much easier.

I use @apply in quite a few projects, mainly because I like the defaults in tailwindcss. I know it defeats the point of tailwind, but I find that it works nicely when using BEM.

I've added it to my list of projects to look into, so should be added fairly soon!

Thank you, hadn’t heard or SimStudio before, have added it to my list of projects to add.

Sorry about that, wasn't aware that this was an issue for people in Vietnam. If you want, you can direct email me at contact[at]openaltfinder[dot]com, or you can reply here with the project you wanted to submit.

At least to me, before LLMs, those people could somewhat be trained. You could give them feedback, and they would improve and learn the code.

Now your feedback is just another prompt for them, the code might be slightly better, but the person learned nothing from it.

I’m currently doing a project with someone who only uses LLMs, and it’s exhausting and mentally draining.

Whenever I give feedback on something, the answer is just “let me tell Claude”. The person has no understanding of how everything works, and most of the code reflects that.

The other day he hardcoded in a demo mode, simply because he didn’t even know how to set up a local environment and set environment variables. I’m confused as to why Claude didn’t even knew this, but it might just be the prompting.

I limit LLM usage myself, and if I do use it, I try to use it on extremely specific tasks. It’s the only way it works for me.

I honestly don’t understand how all these companies are getting away with generating AI code. Even in a small project I quickly fall behind on my understanding of the project.