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    <title>👋 Hi. I'm Sam.</title>
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    <description>I write visual and interactive guides to programming topics.</description>

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    <description>Yogurt takes meeting notes with AI that runs locally on Mac, Windows and Linux. No bot joins the call. Free and open source.</description>

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    <description>Linear changelog - New updates and improvements to Linear.</description>

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    <description>Linear changelog - New updates and improvements to Linear.</description>

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    <description>ngrok is developer infrastructure that routes and secures traffic to your apps, APIs, and AI models, wherever they run. Start on localhost, ship to prod.</description>

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    <description>Web browsers enable incredibly rich app development—and in the current environment, that’s radically easier than it used to be.</description>

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    <description>Play Need for Speed: Underground 2 (2004) in Chrome and Firefox with WebGPU graphics, Web Audio, up to 120 fps widescreen, controller support, free roam and Online races with friends. Fan project, not affiliated with Electronic Arts.</description>

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    <title>What even is code mode?</title>
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    <description>Code mode lets agents write code that calls tools. How it works, when it helps and where it fits alongside agents that call tools directly.</description>

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    <title>What is AWS Emulator?</title>
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    <title>Which AI Made This?</title>
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    <description>Compare AI-generated UIs from the same prompt across models, with and without a frontend design skill.</description>

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    <title>More Confidence, Not More Code Review</title>
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    <description>Four runtime promises exposed by moving seven Python ingestion Lambdas into services on Kubernetes, with checks for making the migration reliable.</description>
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    <title>simplifaisoul/osiris: Open Source Global Intelligence Platform - Real-Time OSINT Dashboard - A Palantir Alternative</title>
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    <description>COVID 19 Data Browse, download, and analyze COVID 19 related data from the New York State Department of Health. The data will be updated on a daily basis. Education Explore SUNY and CUNY campus locations and programs,…</description>
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    <title>Farmingdale State College</title>
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    <description>Connecticut Pizza &amp; Brew Fest will debut in Connecticut at the Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater in Bridgeport.</description>
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    <title>Find Defensive Driving Discounts &amp; Courses by State</title>
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    <description>As our policyholder you may qualify for defensive driving discounts. See what discounts you qualify for by state.</description>

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    <description>The fastest path from prompt to production with Gemini</description>
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    <description>A public, plain-language record of how the New York Court of Appeals and each of its judges have ruled, sorted by the issues that shape life in this state.</description>
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    <title>Zone: Neurofeedback Earbuds &amp; In-Ear EEG Focus Tracking</title>
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    <description>Zone (z·ne): neurofeedback earbuds with in-ear EEG sensors for real-time focus and cognitive-load tracking. Join early access and own your focus.</description>
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    <title>Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read &amp; write neural network weights</title>
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    <title>Die Schweiz 1:1 in Minecraft</title>
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    <description>Die ganze Schweiz im Massstab 1:1 als Minecraft-Welt, aus den offenen Geodaten von swisstopo. Ein Block ist ein Meter.</description>
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