Building The World Now: six months of stack notes

About six months ago I started The World Now as a side project, an attempt to build a news site where the pipeline is mostly automated but the editorial judgment still feels like a human made the call. No filler, no scraped soup, no "10 things you won't believe." Here's where it's at and what's running under the hood. ## The stack Next.js 15 on Vercel, App Router, RSC where it makes sense. Turbopack for dev, which is genuinely fast but eats HMR state maybe once a day and forces a restart. MongoD