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    <description>The personal paper of Shivam — developer, maker, and tech consultant in Jaipur. Projects, essays, lab notes, and the occasional obituary.</description>
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      <title>The Workshop Must Get Bigger</title>
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      <title>Engineers Need Better Taste</title>
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<description>It answered every question and remembered none of them</description>    </item>
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