I didn’t build Cookslate because I wanted a side project. I built it because every recipe app I tried treated cooking like a Pinterest mood board instead of something you actually do with your hands.

I’ve been using Trilium Notes for years to manage everything from homelab documentation to music catalogs, and every time I mention it at work, I get the same blank stare. That’s not Trilium’s problem.

I just wanted to stop losing recipes to dead browser tabs and sticky notes. What I got instead was a crash course in every layer of web development I had been successfully avoiding for years.