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For years, hackathons followed a predictable, somewhat frustrating script: spend the first six hours fighting with environment variables, incompatible node versions, or the tedious "plumbing" of a React app. By the time you actually got your app to compile, the pizza was cold and most of the redbull cans were empty. The Mid-2010s "Drought" I’ve personally felt that the energy around hackathons has been in a steady decline since the mid-2010s. For a while, the "spark" seemed to fade for...

The Trigger: A Long Outage The fragility of the energy grid came into focus when my family endured a pre- planned power outage by Xcel...

In September 2023, my career faced an unexpected turn when the company I was working at for over 2 years was significantly impacted by risin