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Hope you're on the mend, Janahan :)

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I'm encouraged by the progress. Thanks, Sairam :)

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Sorry to hear abt ur injury hope you’re getting better soon, Janahan

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Appreciate that, KimSia. It's definitely getting better.

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Ah I hope you’re getting rest and feel better soon!

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Accepting rest is necessary can be tough! It's trending well though

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Mar 13, 2023Liked by Janahan Sivaraman

Loved it!! And sorry to hear about your injury, hope you are getting better :)

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Appreciate it, Shivam. I'm 95% healed by now. It was a rough 9 weeks :(

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Feb 23, 2023Liked by Janahan Sivaraman

Great to have you back on a regular basis. Glad you're doing better!

My favorite pizza as a kid was this bar/restaurant that was only a mile or so from my house. I haven't had it in 35 years but I can still taste it. They also had amazing burgers which they cooked in their pizza ovens. They would cover them in cheese and mushrooms. (this was long before I became a vegetarian, obviously) Just thinking about this takes me back to my childhood 😊

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I appreciate you having me on a regular basis. I’m intrigued by these burgers! Do you think this restaurant is still open? What toppings did you get on that pizza?

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Feb 26, 2023Liked by Janahan Sivaraman

It's not open. It closed like 30 years ago but my Mom and I still talk about their food. The owner passed away and the new buyers just couldn't replicate what he did. On the pizza we got mushrooms and sausage. But they used ground beef for their sausage. It was incredible.

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New owners not keeping the food consistent is such a common story. Sucks it happened here too. Love ground beef as a topping too. I saw recently a bolognese sauce instead of tomato on a pie. I might give it a try 🙂

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I was just thinking of you and glad to hear you’re alright, hope you have all you need for a smooth recovery 🙏 your pizza brought me back to my high school shenanigan days on route 40, looks delicious. And you’re so right about the physicality of accents, I did tongue exercises while learning French to pronounce new sounds and had never reflected on the ways my body also changes while speaking French vs English

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I appreciate that, Shana. Pizza helps us heal, I think :)

Happy to hear that pizza brought you back, means it accomplished its goal.

It's wild how when you commit to it being a full body exercise how much better your communication is received. You can start seeing how other folks' bodies react to yours and conversation graduates to dance.

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This kind of injury is very annoying. Take care and have a good recovery.

We prepare Pizza every week at home, but our favorite style is thin and crunchy like they do in Roma 🙂

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You're so right, Franco. I'm encouraged to be in front of a computer typing right now.

That's awesome y'all do pizza weekly. I love the thin, crunchy Roma style. I had some at Forno Campo di Fiori in 2016 that was so good I went back 3 meals a day :)

I need to learn how to make that style.

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Feb 21, 2023Liked by Janahan Sivaraman

Here's my take on the tech stacks: what you are building and how much time you have for it is essential.

In about three months, my agency shipped the initial version of a project management tool built for architectural acoustics engineers.

It's a super complex world, with tons of data, relations, charts, and features (especially around working with tabular data because engineers use Excel a lot).

Building this thing in such a short time was only possible with frameworks.

Forums, blog engines, and job boards usually have limited ways to input and represent data. And most of it is text and images. In 2013, I built an entire forum engine (phpBB style) from scratch as the final project i middle school, with no frameworks. It's doable and probably the best way to do it.

On the other hand, there's nothing wrong with using NextJS and Prism for a simple blog application, and people often do that to try some new tech.

So I guess the answer to what's the tech stack that fits best for your use case is: it depends :)

Get better soon, Janahan!

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Feb 22, 2023·edited Feb 22, 2023Author

I appreciate you sharing your experience, Akos. It makes sense with more interactivity, frameworks are more helpful - especially with tighter timelines. There's definitely nothing wrong with using frameworks. In my limited experience, Ive felt the tradeoff wasn't worth it - but let's see how I feel developing a website without one :)

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It's quite a refreshing experience! I'm accidentally doing the same - building a Chrome extension for a client with Plain JavaScript :)

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Scapula issues are no fun. All the best with recovery!

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Great to hear I'm not alone. I'll get better as fast as I can :)

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Full recovery > speed.

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