About Vid Luther

Background

I do not have a formal background in Computer Science, but I was fortunate enough to start working in tech when the internet was still young. I have paid for a web browser, I remember the articles making fun of Jeff Bezos and calling it Amazon dot Bomb, I survived the dot com crash of 2000.

I started with GW Basic, quickly graduated to Turbo Pascal 7, Perl 4, Perl 5, PHP, and for the past six years JavaScript and TypeScript. If I was to go back in time to tell my younger self that most of the web was now built using JavaScript I would not have believed it.

Current Interests (Spring 2026)

These days, I’m interested in how AI is changing the economics and process of building software. I know that AI has made it easier than ever to launch an MVP. But, I am not convinced that it has reduced the problem of technical debt. I’m afraid that founders are getting themselves into a different kind of debt that is going to be hader to pay off. To understand this first hand, I’m building in public and sharing my experiences here.

My Toolkit (Spring 2026)

Here are my tools, or the “Stack” I work with.

Claude - I use Opus 4.6 thinking for rubberducking.
Claude Code - I switch between the latest Sonnet and Opus models. Sonnet is usually good most of the time.
OpenCode - I have the Go subscription, and I am undecided on which models work best for me. I think their TUI is the best.
Zed my editor of choice
GitButler - Git Worktrees without the complexity
Orbstack - Containers without the bloat of Docker Desktop.
Amazon Web Services
Cloudflare
Netlify
Supabase
Typescript (NestJS, NextJS and Astro)

What I’m Building

linklog.app — Every day I get bombarded with new products and ideas of how to do x with y. I need a way to consume these articles at a pace that’s suitable for me. So this is my attempt at curating a linklog for myself. It uses NestJS, Supabase, NextJS and is deployed on Netlify and AWS AppRunner.

BrowseAbroad — A Chrome extension for automatic currency conversion. I live in India now, but I still think in USD, this helps me out as I browse sites that have prices in Indian Rupees (INR) (₹).

PriceOfGoods.com — I wanted to see if the price of goods went down after Trump got elected, and I wanted a simple way of tracking goods I care about. But it’s turned into a project that helps me use ai-sdk to query the different models and just see what they’re capable of.

Secure Hook Inspector — I built this for work, when I needed a way to test and debug webhooks without exposing sensitive payloads to third-party services like RequestBin or webhook.site.

LessPress or AstroWP — This is a way to see if we can use WordPress less in our daily lives. These are experiments of using WordPress as a headless CMS with Astro.

This Website

luther.io is built with Astro and a custom theme based on TailwindCSS. The content is a mix of long-form technical articles and a curated feed of links and commentary on things I find worth reading across the industry.