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      <title><![CDATA[The Fragmented Rails: Building Payment Orchestration Across African Banking Infrastructure]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A technical deep-dive into the architectural decisions behind Tunu Store's payment layer — connecting M-PESA, Stripe Connect, and a dozen other rails without a unified abstraction layer. What we built, what failed, and what we learned about money on the African internet.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Border Reset: The Hidden Identity Infrastructure Problem in European Rental Markets]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Every time a person moves between EU countries, their rental history, credit record, and verified identity effectively disappear. This is not a legal problem — it's an infrastructure problem. Here is what we built to solve it.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The CDN Lie: Rebuilding Asset Delivery for African Markets]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[How we rebuilt Tunu Store's asset delivery layer from a single-region bottleneck to a multi-region edge deployment — and what serving creators in Lagos, Nairobi, and Accra taught us about CDN assumptions that were never designed with Africa in mind.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Replicating Boris Cherny's Claude Code Setup on Your Local Machine]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A step-by-step guide to replicate Boris Cherny's minimalist setup for Claude Code, emphasizing parallel instances, shared docs, slash commands, subagents, hooks, and verification loops.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Schema of the State: Why Kenya Needs a Temporal Data Lake]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[GovTech fails when it focuses on apps instead of architecture. A technical argument for Temporal Databases (SQL:2011) and a Federated Data Lakehouse for the public sector.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Kratt Law: Algorithmic Fairness in the World's Digital Republic]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[An analysis of Estonia's legal framework for AI agents, the mathematical definitions of fairness, and how we audit 'black box' government algorithms.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[From Soil to SQL: Data Engineering the Kenyan Coffee Supply Chain]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[An engineering deep-dive into building a distributed IoT telemetry system for coffee cooperatives. Rust on the edge, MQTT over 2G, and the math of yield prediction.]]></description>
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