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      <title><![CDATA[Voxelbox is Buzzing]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I connected Buzz to the agent organization and project interfaces I already run in Voxelbox, without moving the memory, tools or orchestration behind them.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Scaling human attention when agents compress timelines]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Agents prepare DynastyDB rankings, keep routine operations moving and return ambiguous commissioner rulings for my review.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Teaching agents to learn]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Voxelbox uses scheduled reflection to turn session history into sourced, curated operating instructions for future agents.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Agent deliberation and adversarial review]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Claude found a capability I had buried, and Codex helped me keep it while cutting the proposal down.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Experimenting when implementation is free]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Agentic coding made it cheap to build several versions, and git worktrees let me keep the attempts separate while I compared them.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Don't get too attached]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Agentic coding makes another implementation cheap. I spend more time defining the interface and preserving the reasoning behind it.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The chief of staff pattern]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[One stable project conversation can route a delegated task into its own thread and bring the result back.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Writing, Again]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I wrote because people read, replied and made the ideas better. Working with agents has brought that feedback loop back.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pattern matching with LLMs]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The more patterns I acquire, the more I have to draw on when I meet a new problem. LLMs let me search and test that library much faster.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Microsoft should buy Xamarin for a lot of money]]></title>
      <link>https://tmarman.com/posts/2014-02-20-microsoft-should-buy-xamarin-for-a-lot-of-money/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Microsoft's developer bribery strategy for Windows Phone is short-sighted compared to acquiring Xamarin. A Xamarin acquisition would defragment mobile development and attract developers through superior tooling rather than temporary financial incentives.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[Of Tragedies and Anniversaries]]></title>
      <link>https://tmarman.com/posts/2011-09-12-of-tragedies-and-anniversaries/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[I've always had a weird and complicated relationship with 9/11. On the ten year anniversary of the attacks, I reflect on the significance of the events and other anniversaries.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[Rethinking My Blog]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[After migrating through multiple platforms and writing 1,100 posts over seven years, Twitter fundamentally changed my blogging patterns. The shift to short-form content diluted longer analysis, prompting a move toward fewer but more substantial posts.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[One Year after a Cancer Diagnosis]]></title>
      <link>https://tmarman.com/posts/2010-01-12-one-year-after-a-cancer-diagnosis/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[On the one year anniversary of the day I was told my cancer had spread, I spent the day at the very same hospital on regular follow-up testing. This odd coincidence made my reflection on what was a crazy year particularly surreal.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Personal</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why Paying to Pitch is Necessarily a Scam]]></title>
      <link>https://tmarman.com/posts/2009-10-29-why-paying-to-pitch-is-necessarily-a-scam/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Why Paying to Pitch is Necessarily a Scam]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Startups</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[9/11]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[9/11]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Personal</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Fixing LCD Image Persistence on Multi-Monitor Systems]]></title>
      <link>https://tmarman.com/posts/2009-07-23-fixing-lcd-image-persistence-on-multi-monitor-systems/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Fixing LCD Image Persistence on Multi-Monitor Systems]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Consumer Tech</category><category>Engineering</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Augmented Reality on the iPhone]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Augmented Reality on the iPhone]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Consumer Tech</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Weekend Reading #5]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Weekend Reading #5]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Engineering</category><category>Writing</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship, Ambiguity and Risk]]></title>
      <link>https://tmarman.com/posts/2009-04-07-entrepreneurship-ambiguity-and-risk/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship, Ambiguity and Risk]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Startups</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Crash-Test Solution: Using physics to predict economic downturn]]></title>
      <link>https://tmarman.com/posts/2009-04-03-the-crash-test-solution-using-physics-to-predict-economic-downturn/</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Crash-Test Solution: Using physics to predict economic downturn]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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