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2019-08-12 06.29.25

Why is modern web development so complicated? A long yet hasty explanation: Part 1! - vrk.dev by vrk.dev Modern frontend web development is a polarizing experience: many love it, others despise it.…

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Disrupting Disruption

Humans look for patterns everywhere and generally find them, whether they are there or not. But not everything has a pattern. And not not everything is a jigsaw puzzle. And not everything is Disruption Theory.…

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U.S Out of Vermont

Wagner described to me what had happened when Hurricane Irene hit Hancock in 2011. The White River rose, swept away entire homes, and disinterred the corpses in nearby cemeteries. A wall of water out of the mountains shredded Route 100, leaving 20-foot canyons, isolating the village. National Guard helicopters were slow to arrive. The Federal Emergency Management Agency was nowhere to be seen. The residents held potluck dinners and planning sessions by candlelight, deputized a leadership, heaved pebbles and gravel…

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