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      <description><![CDATA[Why I enrolled at NJIT for graduate cybersecurity study while running MaverickBytes solo, and what formal coursework adds that self-teaching could not.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Nothing Is Done Until It's Verified: How I Benchmark Claims Before I Ship Them]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every performance number in my READMEs is backed by committed benchmark output tagged with the device and the commit that produced it.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Voice Journal cannot send your data anywhere because the Android platform will not let it, and that guarantee shaped every technical decision in the app.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[How I tore every cloud dependency out of my AI companion and rebuilt it on a fully local stack of faster-whisper, Ollama, ChatterBox, and ChromaDB.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The story behind MaverickBytes: why I built it, the tech decisions I made, and what I learned shipping a developer portfolio as a product.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[After two years as a QA Analyst in healthcare tech, I made the leap to full-stack development. Here's why, and why I don't regret keeping one foot in QA.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[What I learned building Testimonial Collector from scratch: the wins, the mistakes, and the things nobody tells you about shipping a SaaS product alone.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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