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      <title>How I Built a Marketing Video for Free Using Remotion &amp; AI: The FTD Approach
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      <description><![CDATA[As indie hackers and developers, we often face a classic dilemma: building a great product is only half the battle; marketing it requires high-end promotional videos that usually demand expensive software, professional editors, or hefty agency budgets. What if you could build a professional marketin…]]></description>
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      <title>Free Tier Development: What One Engineer Can Build</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:25:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A first-person case study in building llama-manager with free-tier AI tools Every project I start begins with a task that never appears in a sprint plan: the preflight check. Can I create an account on this platform? Will the payment go through, or will checkout fail with an error that explains noth…]]></description>
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      <title>LinkedIn Permanently Restricted My Account and I Lost a Month Fighting a Verification Loop That Never Worked</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:47:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[If LinkedIn permanently restricted your account and you are located in a country where their verification partner (Persona) doesn't operate — including Russia — stop. The verification loop cannot be completed, LinkedIn's support knows this, and the case will be closed with the same template regardle…]]></description>
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      <title>Tactical 3D: A 3D Football Tactical Board for Coaches and Fans</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tactical 3D is a 3D football tactical board that lets coaches and football fans place players and the ball on a virtual pitch, save match situations, attach coaching notes, and switch between realistic 3D camera angles — all from a browser, and comfortable enough to use on a tablet during a real tra…]]></description>
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      <title>Stop Making Your AI Agents Hallucinate URLs: Deterministic Link Integrity by Construction</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:59:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[How a 4B-parameter model running locally produced a 20-source research report from LinkedIn — with zero broken links — by removing URLs from the model's context entirely. If you have ever built an agent that cites sources, you know the failure mode. The model returns a confident, detailed answer. Th…]]></description>
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      <title>Emergent Capabilities: Why AI Matters — From Memory Cells to Human Potential</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:45:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Some of the most important ideas hide in plain sight. Here's one of them: a single unit, on its own, can't do much. But combine units — and something entirely new appears. This phenomenon is called emergence, and once you understand it, you see it everywhere: in memory chips, in companies, and now —…]]></description>
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      <title>Visualizing the Rubik’s Cube: Interactive 3D Puzzle &amp; Borromean Rings Permutation Graph</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 21:01:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Standard Rubik's Cube simulators focus purely on 3D manipulation. Cube & Rings bridges spatial geometry and group theory by visualizing state changes on both a 3D model and an interconnected Borromean Rings Permutation Graph. Most web implementations fail to show the underlying topological relations…]]></description>
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      <title>One of the Best Proofs of My Engineering Skills: I Built a Polymarket Market-Making System</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:32:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[One of the best ways to demonstrate engineering skills is to build something that has to work in the real world. I built a market-making system for Polymarket, designed around strategy logic, execution, and real market conditions rather than a theoretical backtest. The strategy was tested for one we…]]></description>
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      <title>I’ve been banned from LinkedIn, Reddit, and X (Twitter).</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:09:41 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>Ivan Vitiaev</author>
      <description><![CDATA[And the strange part is that I still don’t know exactly why. I was not running spam campaigns. I was not posting stolen content. I was not harassing people. I was not selling some questionable scheme. I was mostly doing what I normally do: building things, sharing my own projects, writing about tech…]]></description>
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