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      <title><![CDATA[Get your dopamine from production, not consumption]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 11:29:38 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Get your dopamine from production, not consumption. -- Justin Skycak With that reminder, I'm back to writing here.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Thick and thin cultures]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:08:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Chris Arnade on X (Feb 14, 2026): ... for the U.S., our thick culture is largely inherited from Western Europe, mostly England, and is best summarized as Caree…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Tulu, and Havyaka Kannada]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:21:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A link]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Best model depends on the task at hand]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:15:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Via X/Vikhyat The diagram uses the Cynefin Framework]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[How to make a living as an artist]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:02:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[One of the better blog posts I have read in a while. Going into depth about the motivation, and how to practice the "trade" etc.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Finders, Minders, and Grinders]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:22:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I read this tweet: “Finders, minders, and grinders” Partners, VPs, and analysts And it was a new perspective on how organizations are structured.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Software's first act is over]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:24:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[AWS's Marc Brooker offers a sober view of the evolving split in the road for software development career.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[More Codex-like Apps]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:30:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Yesterday (Feb 2, 2026), OpenAI announced their Codex App for managing multiple coding agents.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Training and Tuning models is the new modeling]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:06:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Vibe coding is the new product management. Training and tuning models is the new coding.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Welcome to the room]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:06:04 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Congratulations... your days of whining are over.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Sizing Risk and Reward]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 12:03:35 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Similar notes from Peter Cundill from his two books -- "There is always something to do" and "Routines and Orgies" via The Ichanist]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Coding Agent VMs on NixOS]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:40:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[With the popularity of exe.dev, sprites (from fly.io), and shellbox, one wonders if there is a way to give sandboxed environment on existing, local boxes witho…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Seek Delight]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:47:27 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA["What do you want [out of life]?" The answer often is - Happiness, Contentment, Wealth, Health.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[How I am using Clawdbot (Moltbot)]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:31:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Moltbot fka ClawdBot has been the rage among generative AI enthusiasts for the past few weeks, and I too have been caught up in it.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Stable Marriage Problem]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:04:13 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Ajeya Cotra goes into the "Stable Marriage Problem" algorithm to explain why Asking for what you want opens up you to opportunities that may be outside your us…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lessons learned are quickly forgotten unless they were learned in terror, or so…]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 06:21:04 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Lessons learned are quickly forgotten unless they were learned in terror, or sorrow, or shame.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Reliable Signals of Honest Intent]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:49:10 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This is a great phrase -- "Reliable Signals of Honest Intent", one that you should be reminding yourself every time you are making something for "others" to se…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Targeted Bets]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:37:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The biggest takeaway from reading "Poor Charlie's Almanack" is that the late great investor Charlie Munger preached the importance of having, acquiring, and ap…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[IU Hoosiers are College Football Champions]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 23:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Indiana University Hoosiers Football team won the National Championship today defeating Miami Hurricanes after their toughest match of the playoffs.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[A new era for static site generators]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:45:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I am no stranger to static site generators, having written a few of them (bari) myself(mdninja) over the years (webgen.py) and of course something I wrote and…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Observed on the stream A hard kettlebell workout routine; 2:32 video, 20 minute…]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 13:49:17 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Observed on the stream A hard kettlebell workout routine; 2:32 video, 20 minute workout.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Coding is cheap, taste is not]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 09:44:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[What coding agents do is make exploring your ideas accessible even when you are not al all-rounder in design, coding, administration, and other tasks associate…]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[What you really care about is what you spend your time doing, not what you keep…]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:11:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[What you really care about is what you spend your time doing, not what you keep saying.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Astro Joins Cloudflare]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:00:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I thought I would resist the temptation to make the first post on this blog about the tools used to write this blog, but ironically, this news pushed me to fin…]]></description>
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