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              <title>I Built an App That Judges Your Life Decisions. Here's How Jev Works</title>
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              <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
              <description><![CDATA[Let Jev Decide is a one-page notebook where you type a life decision and an AI model judges it. What Jev is, how I wired it, and what broke.]]></description>
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              <title>Your AI Isn't Dumb. Your Harness Is</title>
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              <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
              <description><![CDATA[Everyone's arguing about which model is smarter. Meanwhile the harness (the loop of tools, context and feedback wrapped around the model) is what decides whether AI ships code or just talks about it.]]></description>
              <content:encoded><![CDATA[Everyone's arguing about which model is smarter. Meanwhile the harness (the loop of tools, context and feedback wrapped around the model) is what decides whether AI ships code or just talks about it.]]></content:encoded>
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              <title>MCP Changed How I Use AI. Here's What It Actually Is</title>
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              <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
              <description><![CDATA[Model Context Protocol sounds fancy but it's basically giving AI tools superpowers. Here's how I actually use it.]]></description>
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              <dc:creator>Thanh Tran Van</dc:creator>
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              <title>I Went Through Anthropic's Academy. Here's What's Actually Useful</title>
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              <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
              <description><![CDATA[Anthropic has a free course on prompt engineering and using Claude effectively. Some of it's gold, some of it you can skip.]]></description>
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              <dc:creator>Thanh Tran Van</dc:creator>
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              <title>Claude Skills Are Basically Custom Modes for AI. And They're Sick</title>
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              <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
              <description><![CDATA[Skills are reusable instruction folders Claude loads only when a task needs them. What they are, how to write one, and where they work in 2026.]]></description>
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              <dc:creator>Thanh Tran Van</dc:creator>
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              <title>How I Actually Use AI As a Developer (No BS Guide)</title>
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              <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
              <description><![CDATA[Not the 'AI will replace developers' take. The real ways I use AI every day, the prompts that work, where it fails, and what the research says.]]></description>
              <content:encoded><![CDATA[Not the 'AI will replace developers' take. The real ways I use AI every day, the prompts that work, where it fails, and what the research says.]]></content:encoded>
              <dc:creator>Thanh Tran Van</dc:creator>
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              <title>How I Fixed the Black Screen Issue in KDE Plasma</title>
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              <pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
              <description><![CDATA[How I fix the KDE Plasma black screen after login: restart plasmashell, get in from a TTY, read the crash logs, and keep it from coming back.]]></description>
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              <title>How to Use Cursor for Free (2026 Update)</title>
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              <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
              <description><![CDATA[The old Cursor trial reset trick is dead. Here's what actually works in 2026: the free Hobby plan, student options, and how to make free usage last.]]></description>
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              <dc:creator>Thanh Tran Van</dc:creator>
              <category>Cursor</category><category>AI</category><category>Web Development</category><category>JavaScript</category>
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              <title>Is Ubuntu Completely Bloated? (2026 Update)</title>
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              <pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
              <description><![CDATA[Is Ubuntu actually bloated? What changed up to 26.04 LTS, what really eats your RAM, how to check it yourself, and when to switch to something lighter.]]></description>
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              <dc:creator>Thanh Tran Van</dc:creator>
              <category>tech</category><category>computerscience</category><category>coding</category><category>ubuntu</category><category>Linux</category>
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              <title>Is Computer Science Still Worth It?</title>
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              <pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
              <description><![CDATA[Is a CS degree still worth it in 2026? The real numbers on jobs and unemployment, what AI changed, and what actually gets you hired now.]]></description>
              <content:encoded><![CDATA[Is a CS degree still worth it in 2026? The real numbers on jobs and unemployment, what AI changed, and what actually gets you hired now.]]></content:encoded>
              <dc:creator>Thanh Tran Van</dc:creator>
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