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      <description><![CDATA[How we leveraged AI-assisted developer workflows (Cursor, Claude Code) to build, launch, and scale an AI-powered edTech platform to over 10,000 signups in 60 days.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why Web Accessibility (a11y) is an Engineer's Superpower]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Demystifying Google's latest Core Web Vitals metric — Interaction to Next Paint (INP) — along with concrete techniques for slashing Largest Contentful Paint (LCP).]]></description>
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