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Our stack is HTML and CSS
The title of this week's episode comes from a Hacker News thread where Guillermo argued that the complexity of front end performance goes beyond simplifying your stack to bare web primitives.
You can find out more about Vercel, which recently raised a $40 million round, on Guillermo's blog, where he details what the company has planned for the future.
You can find more info on Next.JS here. It's a very active tag on Stack Overflow with dozens of new questions a day.
Our lifeboat badge for this episode goes to paxdiablo for answering the question: What does .split() return if the string has no match?