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            <title><![CDATA[Black Friday: 12 Books That'll Change Your Engineering Career]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[🎃 10 Spooky Engineering Antipatterns That Haunt Your Codebase (And How to Exorcise Them)]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[When fear and deadlines strike, we all fall into the same traps. Discover 10 engineering antipatterns that haunt codebases—from "tests are missing" to horizontal slicing nightmares—and learn how to banish them for good.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[MCP: The USB-C Moment for APIs [And Why You Should Care]]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard released by Anthropic in November 2024, is fundamentally changing the painful reality of dealing with APIs]]></description>
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