LocallyGrown

• Weeknotes: May 23–29, 2026
  
  Sending off a Gloomhaven plagueherald, letting AI write the tests I'd been avoiding, leek and potato soup from last week's borrowed CSA share, and a focused few days ahead in Austin.
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  May 30, 2026 - 6 min read
• Anatomy of a Support Inbox
  
  How one email address quietly turned into a pipeline that reads, sorts, drafts, and watches my back — without ever taking a decision out of my hands.
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  May 30, 2026 - 13 min read
• Weeknotes: May 16–22, 2026
  
  A 20x speedup on LocallyGrown's product page, ten hours of surf music at the Athens Stomp Fest, the return of Tiki Taco Tuesday, and a CSA share signed over by friends.
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  May 23, 2026 - 5 min read
• Weeknotes: May 9–15, 2026
  
  An ordinary week felt almost luxurious — cutting laser faceplates for the long-overdue CONpossible trophies, chipping away at LocallyGrown quality-of-life features, and eyeing a solo trip back to Austin.
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  May 16, 2026 - 2 min read
• Either Way, There'll Be Cake
  
  A gluten-free Yule log for second Christmas, held together by willpower and ganache.
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  Jan 1, 2026 - 3 min read
• From Survival to Sustainability: The Next 20 Years for LocallyGrown.net Part 6 of LocallyGrown.net: The 23-Year Journey
  
  Six weeks after the rebuild, the crisis is over. Here’s the focused roadmap—EBT access, delivery tools, and quiet reliability—for community-run, multi-grower markets.
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  Sep 29, 2025 - 12 min read
• Lessons from the Solo Developer Using Modern Tools Part 5 of LocallyGrown.net: The 23-Year Journey
  
  How I used code-aware tools to multiply my reach (tests, docs, audits) while keeping humans in charge of architecture, business logic, and quality.
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  Sep 22, 2025 - 31 min read
• The Reality of Production: When Hope Meets Live Users Part 4 of LocallyGrown.net: The 23-Year Journey
  
  Launching with 3,000 passing tests still led to two weeks of production bugs—fees, permissions, Stripe, email, and a thousand cuts. How I triaged 314 fixes, kept markets running, and what I’d change next time.
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  Sep 17, 2025 - 15 min read
• The Architecture Challenge: Translating 19 Years of Rails Logic to Modern SvelteKit Part 3 of LocallyGrown.net: The 23-Year Journey
  
  How I translated a 19-year Rails monolith to SvelteKit—TypeScript services, Drizzle, subdomain multitenancy, role-based auth, secure theming — without downtime.
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  Sep 15, 2025 - 23 min read
• The 23-Year Rescue Mission: Saving Agricultural Innovation from Technical Extinction Part 2 of LocallyGrown.net: The 23-Year Journey
  
  By 2025, LocallyGrown.net faced extinction on Rails 3. The story of constant firefighting, failed upgrades, and the impossible choice to rebuild or die.
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  Sep 9, 2025 - 13 min read

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