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Kunj Hirapara
I build and run full-stack web apps with Next.js, React, Node.js and PostgreSQL, and this is where I write up what actually happens along the way: upgrades that broke production, bugs that only showed up on real phones, and whatever finally fixed them. I'm Kunj, a full-stack engineer in Ahmedabad, India. More of my work is at kunjdeveloper.com.
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