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Jan 2021
28m 16s

Our stack is HTML and CSS

The Stack Overflow Podcast
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The title of this week's episode comes from a Hacker News thread where Guillermo argued that the complexity of front end performance goes beyond simplifying your stack to bare web primitives. You can find out more about Vercel, which  recently raised a $40 million round, on Guillermo's blog, where he details what the company has planned for the future. You ... Show More
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