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      <title>Testing Realtime Distributed Systems: Race Conditions Nobody Warns You About</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The war stories of multi-client WebSocket race conditions, optimistic UI desync, and why network latency throttling is mandatory before shipping.</description>
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      <title>Beyond Prompting: Orchestrating Autonomous Multi-Agent Workflows to Ship Real Systems</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Moving past single-prompt chat windows. How I orchestrate a Supervisor-Worker agent hierarchy (Architect -&gt; Builder -&gt; Deployer) to design, audit, and deploy production software.</description>
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      <title>This site runs on my own machine — here’s how</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>No fancy hosting. This portfolio runs in Docker on my own computer, exposed to the world through a Cloudflare Tunnel. Here’s the setup and why I like it.</description>
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      <title>I built three real apps with AI — here’s the honest version</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A password manager, a chat platform, and an AI marketplace — built with a lot of help from AI tools. No pretending otherwise. Here’s what that actually looked like.</description>
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      <title>What testing games at EA taught me</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Before I built my own stuff, I spent my days breaking other people’s. Here’s what QA at EA and PixelBowl actually taught me.</description>
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