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    <description>Backend and AI engineer building reliable systems with careful product details.</description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Queue You Already Have]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[most backend engineers add redis the moment they need a job queue. but postgres has shipped a two-word feature since 2016 that turns your existing database into a correct, crash-safe queue. here's exactly how SKIP LOCKED works, all the way down to MVCC, and when you actually still need redis.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[why 0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[open any language. type 0.1 + 0.2. you'll get 0.30000000000000004. the bug isn't in the language. it's not in the runtime. it's in the silicon. let's go all the way down.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Double Life: Student by Day, Builder by Night]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[How a casual discussion led to building a web agency, discovering a passion for software engineering, and the real cost of balancing college with real-world building.]]></description>
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