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      <title><![CDATA[Agents Who Code and Generative UI: Notes from AI Native Engineers London]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[At the second AI Native Engineers London meetup, the talks were about agents that ship real PRs, generative UI for MCP apps, and design systems in the loop. Here is my honest report from the night.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Fly.io to Hetzner + Coolify: How I Cut My Bill by 80%]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I moved gazar.dev off Fly.io to a self-hosted Hetzner CPX42 running Coolify, cut my monthly bill to a fifth, and ended up with a faster, leaner setup.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Supervisor Agent Architecture: What Makes It Work]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I have been reading deeply about supervisor agents: how they connect to RAG, how memory actually works, human-in-the-loop, dynamic agent generation, and what it costs to run them properly.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Write HLDs and ADRs in HTML or React, Not Markdown]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most engineers write HLDs and ADRs in markdown. Here is why I switched to HTML and React specs, and how living documentation changed my design reviews.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[MongoDB.local London 2025: AI, RAG, and the Future of Data]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[At MongoDB.local London 2025, engineers were working on agent memory, temporal RAG, and vector search in production. Here is what I took away from the day.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[MCP: Context Is Everything — Notes from a Building with MCP Event]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MCP: Context Is Everything — Notes from a Building with MCP Event]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[CRDTs: Conflict-Free Merging in Distributed Systems]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[CRDTs let distributed nodes accept writes and merge without conflict or coordination. No locking, no round-trips. Here is when the trade-off makes sense.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lefthook vs Husky: Why I Switched and Never Looked Back]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Lefthook replaces Husky and lint-staged with a single Go binary, parallel hook execution, and built-in file filtering. Here is why I switched and kept going.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[oxlint vs ESLint: Why I Replaced ESLint with oxlint]]></title>
      <link>https://gazar.dev/typescript/oxlint-vs-eslint-why-i-replaced-eslint</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Replaced ESLint with oxlint in a React TypeScript project and cut lint time from 12 seconds to under one. What I traded away and whether it was worth it.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Race Conditions: What They Are and How to Handle Them]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Race conditions cause subtle, hard-to-reproduce bugs in concurrent systems. Learn what they are, why they happen, and practical techniques to prevent them.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[SLO, SLA, SLI: What They Actually Mean and How to Use Them]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Learn what SLO, SLA, and SLI actually mean, how they relate to each other, and how to set targets you can honestly hit.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[ACID Transactions Explained (Without the Textbook)]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ACID transactions explained: what Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability actually mean for your database and distributed system design.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Engineer Role Shift: From Implementer to Orchestrator]]></title>
      <link>https://gazar.dev/artificial-intelligence/engineer-role-transformation-implementer-to-orchestrator</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The engineer role is shifting from writing code to orchestrating AI agents. Learn what architecture, coordination, and quality evaluation look like now.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Traditional SDLC vs Agentic SDLC: What Actually Changes]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Agentic SDLC vs the traditional software development lifecycle: what actually compresses, what stays hard, and what it means for senior engineers.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Monorepo Tools Compared: NX, Turborepo, Bazel, and Rush]]></title>
      <link>https://gazar.dev/devops/monorepo-tools-comparison-nx-turborepo-bazel-rush</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Compare the leading monorepo tools: NX, Turborepo, Bazel, Rush, and PNPM workspaces. Choose the right fit for your team size, stack, and build needs.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Resilience Patterns: Retry, Circuit Breaker, and Timeouts]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A few months ago I was reviewing an incident postmortem where a payment service took down the entire checkout flow for 40 minutes. The root cause wasn't a...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Multi-Agent Topologies: Choosing Between Supervisor, Pipeline, and Broadcast]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most engineers building multi-agent systems reach for "just add another agent" before they've thought about what topology they're building. That's usually...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[From Prompts to Persistence: Agent Memory, Context, and Memory Engineering]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most agent demos are amnesiac by design. You send a message, the agent responds, and the next time you open a session it has no idea who you are. That is ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I picked this up expecting a dry DevOps manual dressed up as a story. What I got instead was a book that made me genuinely uncomfortable — because I'd see...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[SystemJS Is Dead. Native ESM Finally Won.]]></title>
      <link>https://gazar.dev/typescript/systemjs-deprecation-native-esm</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[I ran into a SystemJS config file last month buried inside a legacy Angular project. The kind with System.config({ packages: { app: { ... } } }), fifteen ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Local-First Architecture: The Quiet Revolution Nobody Is Talking About]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Optimistic UI has been a lie we told ourselves for years. Not a malicious one — a well-intentioned one. You click a button, the UI updates immediately, an...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[CloudEvents: The Standard Your Event-Driven System Needs]]></title>
      <link>https://gazar.dev/system-design/cloudevents-standard-event-schema</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Once a system has more than two or three services publishing events, the same problem shows up every time. One service uses event_type, another uses event...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Transactional Outbox Pattern: Guaranteed Event Publishing Without 2PC]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[There is a class of bug that is almost impossible to reproduce locally, surfaces only in production under load, and leaves your data in a state that is te...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Clean Architecture and Onion Architecture: The Same Idea, Drawn Differently]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I've reviewed a lot of codebases over the years where someone had clearly read Uncle Bob's Clean Architecture book, gone back to their team, and said "we'...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Running Gemma 4 Locally for Your Next Feature: A Practical Decision Guide]]></title>
      <link>https://gazar.dev/artificial-intelligence/gemma4-local-vs-cloud-decision-guide</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[I built a commit message generator locally as a playground first—instead of reaching for a hosted API—so the model stays on my Mac (M4 these days), it cos...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Day 2 Problem: Why Vibe Coding Is Creating a Maintenance Crisis and What Good Engineers Do Instead]]></title>
      <link>https://gazar.dev/artificial-intelligence/the-day-2-problem-vibe-coding-maintenance-crisis</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[I was reviewing a PR last week where a checkout flow had grown to 847 lines in a single component. The author had used an AI assistant to build out severa...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[17 Claude Code Token Management Hacks (Tier 1 to Tier 3)]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In the past week or so, people have been complaining about hitting their Claude Code limit insanely fast. Claims like one prompt that used to cost 1% of t...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Replace Axios with a Simple Custom Fetch Wrapper (Production-Ready Guide)]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Originally published March 30th, 2020 — Updated April 3rd, 2026 — 6 min read]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Anatomy of the .claude/ folder: The Control Center for AI-Enhanced Projects]]></title>
      <link>https://gazar.dev/artificial-intelligence/anatomy-of-the-claude-folder</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[When working with AI coding assistants, organization is everything. A clean, structured approach to managing instructions, rules, and specialized agents c...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[OpenClaw: The Self-Hosted AI Assistant That Treats Intelligence as Infrastructure]]></title>
      <link>https://gazar.dev/artificial-intelligence/openclaw-self-hosted-ai-assistant</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most AI assistants live behind someone else's API. You send a message, it hits a server you don't control, and a response comes back through a pipeline yo...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Token Economics: How to Cut LLM Cost Without Making Your Product Worse]]></title>
      <link>https://gazar.dev/artificial-intelligence/token-economics-llm-cost-control</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Words you need]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:05:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Chunking Is Product Design (And Most RAG Systems Prove It)]]></title>
      <link>https://gazar.dev/artificial-intelligence/chunking-is-product-design-rag</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Words you need]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:48:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Event Sourcing: When History Matters More Than State]]></title>
      <link>https://gazar.dev/system-design/event-sourcing-when-history-matters-more-than-state</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[I deleted a user's order. Not intentionally. A bug in our payment processing system overwrote the order state. The customer called, furious. "Where's my o...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:19:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[DI, SOLID, and the Fundamentals That Actually Matter]]></title>
      <link>https://gazar.dev/clean-code/di-solid-and-the-fundamentals-that-actually-matter</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[I stared at the screen. Lesson 58: Dependency Injection. Five minutes. Checkbox checked. Done.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:41:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Five Architecture Principles That Actually Matter]]></title>
      <link>https://gazar.dev/system-design/five-architecture-principles-scalability-manageability-modularity-extensibility-testability</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most engineers talk about architecture principles. Few actually build systems that follow them. I've seen this gap at Tipalti, at Mecca Brands, and in eve...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:02:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Non-Functional Requirements in Software Architecture: How to Define Them]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most engineers I work with can tell you what a system should do. Few can tell you how well it should do it. That gap between "what" and "how well" is wher...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:59:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[React 19 Performance Secrets, Concurrent Rendering, Suspense & Real Tips]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A team I worked with had a recurring nightmare: the database would commit a transaction, but the event never made it to the message broker. Or worse, the...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Engineering Change Management: Kotter's 8-Step Playbook]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 18:00:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[System Design Interview Playbook: 10-20min Structure and TypeScript]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 22:42:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Map That Made Me Rethink My System Design Approach]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I stumbled upon a visual "System Design Topic Map" from ByteByteGo that stopped me mid-scroll. As someone who's built products, led teams, and spent too m...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2025 20:13:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Embracing AI-Augmented Development: How AI is Changing the Way We Code]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Six months ago I tried writing a service without any AI tooling. No Copilot. No Cursor. No ChatGPT in a side tab.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:35:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lazy Loading in HTML and CSS: Enhancing Performance and User Experience]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I once profiled a landing page that loaded 40 images on first paint. The hero image fought for bandwidth with a carousel image sitting 3000 pixels below t...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 12:39:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Developers Are Saying About React 19: Pros and Cons]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[React 19 shipped. I've used it. I've talked to other developers about it. Here's what actually matters.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:11:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Engineering Management in a Remote-First World]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Remote-first changed everything about how I lead engineering teams. Not the work itself -- the connections around the work. The hallway conversations, the...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:54:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Edge Rendering with Next.js and Cloudflare Workers]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Traditional server-side rendering runs on a single origin server. A user in Sydney requesting a page rendered in Virginia adds 200ms+ of latency just from...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:31:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[How Blockchain is Revolutionizing Identity and Access Management]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Traditional identity systems have a fundamental problem: they're centralized. One database holds your credentials, your permissions, your personal data. W...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:47:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[TypeScript for Large-Scale Applications]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I've worked on codebases with millions of lines of JavaScript. The kind where renaming a function is a prayer. Where undefined is not a function shows up ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:01:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Type Inference and Type Compatibility in TypeScript]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I used to annotate every single variable in TypeScript. Every let, every parameter, every return type. The code looked like a type dictionary.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:29:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Debugging TypeScript Applications: Lessons from the Trenches]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[TypeScript's type system catches a lot. But "a lot" isn't "everything." The bugs that survive the compiler are the ones that hurt the most — subtle, runti...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 09:31:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter]]></title>
      <link>https://gazar.dev/reviews/multipliers-best-leaders-review</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[This book changed how I think about leadership. Not gradually. Immediately.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:48:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Morgan Housel's The Psychology of Money is not a book about spreadsheets or stock picks. It is a book about behavior. And that is what makes it different ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:43:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Natural Order of Money by Roy Sebag – A Refreshing Look at What Money Really Is]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sebag approaches money differently. He doesn't treat it as just an economic tool. He looks at it as something shaped by natural order — rooted in energy, ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:56:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Work Smarter, Live Better by Joe Robinson – A Science-Based Guide to Redefining Balance]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Robinson's argument is straightforward: working more hours doesn't mean working better. In fact, past a certain point, it means working worse. The science...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:52:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The End of the World Is Just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan – An Eye-Opener to the Global Future]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Reading this book felt like getting a private intelligence briefing on what comes next. Zeihan's thesis is blunt: globalization as we know it is ending. A...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:49:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Shape Up by Ryan Singer & Jason Fried – A Personal Review]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Shape Up is the anti-Scrum. Ryan Singer and Jason Fried lay out how Basecamp builds software: no backlogs, no sprints, no story points. Instead, they shap...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:43:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The premise of this book is simple: good parenting and good leadership require the same skills. Patience. Empathy. Knowing when to guide and when to step ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 10:21:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Meaning of Life by The School of Life]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Big title. The book is smarter than the title suggests.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 10:16:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42. And somehow, that's the most satisfying answer Adams could have given.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 09:55:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life by Steven Bartlett]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Steven Bartlett doesn't sugarcoat. He talks about the sleepless nights, the doubt, the inner battles. That's what makes this book stand out from the usual...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 09:39:44 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Cues: Master the Secret Language of Charismatic Communication by Vanessa Van Edwards ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I always assumed charisma was something you either had or you didn't. Van Edwards argues it's a skill. She breaks it down into learnable components, backs...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 08:42:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track by Will Larson – A Journey into Technical Leadership]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This is the book I wish existed five years ago.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 08:11:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Like Switch by Jack Schafer & Marvin Karlins]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[An ex-FBI agent wrote a book about how to make people like you. Sounds manipulative. It's actually practical and grounded.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 07:50:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I always thought charisma was something you either had or didn't. Cabane says that's wrong. Charisma is a skill built from three components: presence, pow...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 04:55:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Born a Crime by Trevor Noah – A Story of Survival, Humor, and Resilience in the Face of Injustice]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Trevor Noah's existence was literally a crime. A mixed-race child born in apartheid South Africa, where relationships between Black and white people were ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 04:19:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bad Blood by John Carreyrou – A Riveting Exposé of Ambition Gone Wrong]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This book made me angry. In the best way.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 04:08:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek – Why Real Leadership Means Putting Others First]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sinek's core argument: great leaders create safety. When people feel safe, they give their best work. When they don't, they protect themselves. Everything...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 04:01:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport – My Path to a More Focused Life]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This book called me out. I needed it.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 03:40:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker – A Wake-Up Call About the Value of Sleep]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This book is a mirror. Not the flattering kind.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every engineer should read this book. Not because it is about engineering. Because it is about clarity.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most leadership books tell you to be strong, decisive, unshakeable. Brown says: be vulnerable. That's a radical claim. She backs it up.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Warren Bennis wrote this book in 1989. It still holds up. That tells you something about the ideas inside.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[This book made me realize I'd been learning wrong for years.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 10:49:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[I grew up in a place where the themes in this book weren't fiction. They were Tuesday.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[This book has been around forever. There's a reason for that.]]></description>
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