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In 2002, I turned a little tool I wrote for myself and other local farmers into a platform serving 100+ markets across North America.
The same architectural decisions that helped it grow nearly killed it 23 years later.
Part 1 of my story:
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From Accidental Discovery to Agricultural Infrastructure: Building the World's First Online Farmers Market (2002-2011)
The origin story of LocallyGrown.net - from failed cooperative to pioneering agricultural platform serving 100+ markets across North America.blog.kestrelsnest.social
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in reply to Eric Wagoner 🦣 • • •ðŸŒ± Part 2 is live: The 23-Year Rescue Mission.
How LocallyGrown.net nearly died from its own success — Rails 3.0.20, Ruby 2.0.0, COVID demand, and the impossible choice to rebuild everything from scratch while working a day job.
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The 23-Year Rescue Mission: Saving Agricultural Innovation from Technical Extinction
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in reply to Eric Wagoner 🦣 • • •ðŸŒ± Part 3 of my LocallyGrown.net series is out: The Architecture Challenge
How I rebuilt a 19-year-old Rails monolith in SvelteKit while production stayed live.
What it takes to modernize a platform without breaking the communities it supports.
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The Architecture Challenge: Translating 19 Years of Rails Logic to Modern SvelteKit
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in reply to Eric Wagoner 🦣 • • •ðŸŒ± Part 4: of my Locallygrown.net series is out: The Reality of Production
Launch day wasn’t graceful — $3 fees, broken invoices, growers locked out. 314 fixes in 2 weeks later, markets kept running thanks to patient managers & quick triage.
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The Reality of Production: When Hope Meets Live Users
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