Today marks 7 months of unemployment and I am very much down to the wire.

I am a full-stack & backend web developer, fluent in TypeScript, with experience building data-focused applications and both SQLite and Postrges databases.

I’m located in the northeast United States and have experience working and successfully collaborating with small, remote teams.

Boosts are appreciated. 🙏

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I remember as a small boy talking with my grandfather, a farmer, in the 1960s. He knew then that the chemical farming everybody was adopting was poisoning the land - he could already observe the disappearance of wildlife and degradation of the soil. But he felt trapped. He was making good money at last, having lived through two world wars and the great depression.

My guess is that many, perhaps most farmers feel the same - they know, and scientists certainly know, that the way forward is regenerative agriculture - but they are objectively trapped in the big agribusiness chemical and fossil fuel race to the bottom.

The EU, and any responsible government, knows that they have to regulate the excesses of big business, or it will ruin both the soil and public health - but the regulatory approach is also a trap, often counter-productive, because big business is much better able to employ staff to deal with complex regulation - or staff to disseminate misinformation.

Better than ever-stricter regulation would be to trust and incentivise small farmers - properly fund them to move to regenerative agriculture, and away from meat - subsidise and promote their produce to outcompete big agribusiness.