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      "title": "CI/CD for communication: how we ship clarity every week",
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      "title": "Consolidation, Again",
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      "title": "An Eleven-Year-Old Lightpack Still Going Strong",
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      "title": "Forgotten Kickstarter Projects",
      "content_text": "Finding documentation of a Kickstarter reward I have no memory of receiving or using, and wondering how many other forgotten indie hardware projects are out there - and how Kickstarter has changed.",
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      "title": "Hiring for AI? Look Beyond Certifications",
      "content_text": "The three kinds of AI work-and why the real ROI is new capabilities, not hours saved.",
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      "title": "My First 3D Printer",
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      "title": "Open Source, Open Home: A Practical Approach to Home Automation",
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      "title": "Reminiscing Over Old Projects",
      "content_text": "Looking back at a door entry system built in 2014 - prototyped at rLab, deployed at Wirehive, and a reminder of the joy of building things that actually work.",
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      "title": "Suspend Battery Drain on the Framework 13 Intel - It's Fine, Actually",
      "content_text": "Investigating battery drain during suspend on a Framework 13 running Ubuntu, finding out s2idle is working perfectly, and setting up suspend-then-hibernate as a sensible workaround.",
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      "content_text": "A field guide to agents that actually ship work: embedded in your systems, guided by policy, and obsessed with closing the loop.",
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      "title": "The Slack I Loved Is Slipping Away",
      "content_text": "Salesforce's grip on Slack is reshaping it from a neutral collaboration layer into a gated CRM surface, squeezing communities and third-party builders.",
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      "content_text": "Linux and networking roots that still apply to AI and modern systems",
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      "title": "Yet another major outage caused by everybody using the same cloud provider",
      "content_text": "Cloudflare was down again, taking a swath of the web with it—and reminding us that monocultures are a choice, not a law of nature.",
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