The Awesome Struggles as a Front-end Engineer

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Details include a concrete career pivot from Matlab and aerospace to building production data-visualization apps at Cogent Labs Inc, a handwriting recognizer called Takaki that actually works, and architectures wired with React, Redux, d3.js plus asynchronous flows using Redux-Saga. The stack connects to graph database engineering and canvas renderers, community-sourced learning accelerates adoption, and examples report real deployments rather than vague promises.

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4. 23:48First Principles

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