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    <title>Casita Amarilla: a static site in 20 languages that keeps publishing itself</title>
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    <description>Casita Amarilla had a very old website. It is now prerendered static HTML in 20 languages, with an agent publishing the blog and ads reported weekly.</description>
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    <title>Fiestas de Gràcia: shipping our neighbourhood&#39;s festival guide in a week</title>
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    <description>Gràcia&#39;s festival programme lives in a PDF. We made it a filterable, trilingual guide with a live map — built in evenings, live at fiestasdegracia.com.</description>
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    <description>Inside the Global Citizen app — daily campaign actions, petitions and quizzes on iOS and Android, and the traffic shape that makes it hard.</description>
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    <title>Spireworks: a phone that changes the New York skyline</title>
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    <description>Spireworks turns the spires of One Bryant Park and One Five One into something you control from your phone, live. Notes on real-time, shared-object apps.</description>
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    <title>Nidra Technician: an app that programmes a medical device</title>
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    <description>Nidra Technician pairs with Noctrix Health&#39;s therapy bands and walks specialists through activation and titration. Notes on building for regulated hardware.</description>
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    <description>Deuxmoi World is a celebrity-sighting guide to restaurants, hotels and spas. How we built search and filtering around content that is written, not generated.</description>
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    <title>Alexander: an audio app where the writing comes first</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Alexander publishes hour-long original audio features narrated by actors, curated by editors. Notes on building playback that survives real listening.</description>
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    <title>Cleaner Go: finding duplicate photos without uploading any of them</title>
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    <description>Cleaner Go scores an entire photo library for duplicates and near-duplicates on the device itself. Notes on doing heavy image work inside a phone&#39;s budget.</description>
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    <title>What building an MVP actually costs in 2026</title>
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    <description>A realistic breakdown of MVP costs in 2026: European vs US rates, what drives the number up, and why most quotes answer a different question.</description>
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    <title>Hire a CTO or outsource? A founder&#39;s decision framework</title>
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    <description>When to hire a CTO, when to outsource product development, and the signals that tell you which one your company needs right now.</description>
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    <description>Most delivery failures aren’t engineering failures — they’re translation failures between the person who owns the outcome and the one who owns the build.</description>
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    <title>Fixed price vs time and materials: which contract actually protects you</title>
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    <description>Fixed-price and time-and-materials contracts fail in opposite directions. Which to use, when, and the clauses that decide whether it works.</description>
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    <title>Why agencies take six months to do three weeks of work</title>
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    <description>Software agencies aren&#39;t slow because their engineers are slow. The delay is structural — and once you can see the structure, you can buy around it.</description>
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    <title>Native vs Flutter vs React Native in 2026</title>
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    <description>A working engineer’s comparison of native iOS/Android, Flutter and React Native in 2026: what each costs, where each breaks, how to choose.</description>
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    <title>How to audit a codebase before you buy, fund, or inherit it</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>A practical technical due diligence checklist for founders, investors and incoming CTOs: what to look at, in what order, and what changes the price.</description>
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    <title>AI-first delivery: what actually got 10× faster, and what didn&#39;t</title>
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    <description>An honest account of where AI-assisted development genuinely compresses timelines, where it changes nothing, and where it quietly makes things worse.</description>
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    <title>I was a founder before I was a CTO. Here&#39;s what I got wrong.</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Running VipKing taught me more about engineering leadership than any engineering job — mostly by showing which instincts fail when you carry the risk.</description>
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    <title>What Yuzz and NEXT taught me that still holds up twelve years later</title>
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    <description>Two pre-acceleration programmes in one year: Banco Santander’s Yuzz and NEXT by Google. What survived contact with reality, and what was theatre.</description>
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