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During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website

by Sparkbox sparkbox.com 5 min read

We recently passed the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene and its devastating impact on Western North Carolina. As a web developer, I am thinking again about my experience with the mobile web on the day after the storm.

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