I have spent more time than I care to admit writing technical documentation for Aurelia 2. The docs at docs.aurelia.io have been through countless revisions, rewrites, restructures, and moments where I stared at the screen wondering if I had forgotten how to form sentences.
Writing code is hard. Writing about code in a way that helps other people write code is harder. Nobody prepares you for this.
The first thing you learn is that you do not actually understand the thing you are documenting. You think you do. You have used it, you have built things with it, you can explain it to a colleague at your desk.
I’ve built a Q&A platform where the worst answers win. It’s called AskBad and it’s exactly what it sounds like.
Look, we’ve already got Quora, StackOverflow, Reddit, and a dozen other places to ask questions and get helpful, well-researched answers from knowledgeable people. The internet is drowning in good advice. What we’re clearly missing is a dedicated space for absolutely terrible guidance.
AskBad started as a satirical reverse StackOverflow. You know those answers on Stack Overflow that make you question whether the person has ever touched a computer? Imagine a whole platform celebrating those. The worse your answer, the more upvotes you get. You earn negative karma. There are badges for being spectacularly unhelpful.
Every year, someone declares Aurelia dead. Every year, they are wrong.
It is 2026 and Aurelia 2 is not just alive, it is shipping features at a pace that would make frameworks with ten times our resources jealous. We have released more updates in the last twelve months than some “stable” frameworks manage in three years. The community is building. The core team is cooking. And the developers who actually use Aurelia instead of just talking about it on social media are shipping production applications while everyone else argues about which state management library to use this week.
I built a new thing: Hive Ships. It lives at https://hive-ships.com and it turns the classic Battleship idea into a turn based, competitive game on the Hive blockchain. You place your fleet, you face another player, and the winner earns HIVE. Simple rules, quick rounds, real stakes.