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            <title><![CDATA[Templates + AI = ❤️]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Why pay for templates when AI can generate a frontend from a prompt?]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[There's a gap between "functional" and "polished". For certain projects, starting from a professional template closes that gap faster than starting from scratch.]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Project Nursery]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Giving Cursor your own patterns to copy from]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[AI is pretty good at copying patterns. It's not as good at inventing them. Point it at code that already works the way you like, and it'll copy that instead.]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Best Improvement I have Made to My Cursor Workflow]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Letting coding agents access runtime output]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[If your coding agent cannot see what your program is doing, it cannot debug it. Letting Cursor access runtime output transformed problems that used to take 30 minutes into 30-second fixes.]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building a Simple Outreach Tracker with Cursor]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[From idea to working software in an afternoon]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[With LLM-powered tooling like Cursor, it can sometimes be faster to build a small workflow tool than to evaluate or configure an existing one. We built Tempo, a tiny outreach tracker, in 20 prompts.]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Founding Lean]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[There's a feeling that the timing is right.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[Building a startup in the age of AI tools. How reduced friction from idea to working software means two people can move at the speed that used to require a full team. A documentation of the early phase of building Flow Myna.]]></content:encoded>
            <author>dsmurrell@gmail.com (Daniel Murrell)</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Lone Spark Hypothesis]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Why life might be vanishingly rare in a universe full of possibility.]]></description>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[Exploring the Fermi Paradox through quantum mechanics and mathematical universes. What if life is so astronomically rare that it occurs in only one branch out of trillions across the multiverse? A deep dive into abiogenesis, the Many-Worlds interpretation, and why conscious observers might be the ultimate statistical outliers.]]></content:encoded>
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