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      <title><![CDATA[Stop Giving Claude a Static Doc. Give It a Brain.]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Brain compiles any Obsidian folder into a living knowledge base every agent can read and update. Claude Projects, Claude Code, Cowork. No RAG. No scripts. No stale context.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:49:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[You Don't Have a Brand Problem. You Have a Systems Problem.]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Joanna Wiebe broke down 6 psychology principles behind personal brands that convert. Every single one is a systems problem — and BlackOps solves all 6.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
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      <category>content-strategy</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Everyone's Mad Anthropic Killed OpenClaw Access. I'm Not.]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[I spent a month debugging OpenClaw every morning before coming back to Claude Code. The people crying loudest about Anthropic's decision aren't the ones who were actually using it to get work done.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:36:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>claude-code</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[I Watched a YouTube Video. Claude Wrote This Post.]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[BlackOps has an MCP server. That means Claude can draft, queue, and publish your content directly from a conversation. Here's what that looks like in practice.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>mcp</category>
      <category>ai-agents</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Future of Writing Is AI-Assisted. Not AI-Generated]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[I am certain that AI writing assistance is going to be the norm soon]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/the-future-of-writing-is-ai-assisted-not-ai-generated</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:34:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Name Is Older Than Most of My Clients' Careers]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Why I named my consulting site after a website I built in the 90s, before CSS, before hosting companies, before any of this was easy.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/the-name-is-older-than-most-of-my-clients-careers</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:18:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>consulting</category>
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      <category>frontend</category>
      <category>commerce</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Two Waves of Digital Transformation. Developers Win Both.]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[AI is replacing workers and consumers alike. The first wave digitized the back office. The second is removing humans from both sides of the transaction. Here's why developers should be optimistic about all of it.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/two-waves-of-digital-transformation-developers-win-both</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>ai-agents</category>
      <category>career</category>
      <category>developers</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Stop Hiring Cooks. Start Building Kitchens.]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Everyone says "we can use AI for that." But reliable, repeatable AI requires infrastructure. Here's why developers need to build the kitchen, not just hire the cook.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/stop-hiring-cooks-start-building-kitchens</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>ai-development</category>
      <category>architecture</category>
      <category>automation</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[I Published an MCP for BlackOps Center. Here’s What It Actually Enables.]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The BlackOps MCP connects Claude directly to your content system. Here's how to use it to write posts, tweet threads, and run campaigns.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/i-published-an-mcp-for-blackops-center-heres-what-you-can-do-with-it</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:41:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>ai-content-workflow</category>
      <category>blackops-mcp</category>
      <category>claude-cowork</category>
      <category>content-operating-system</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[AI Is About to Make Developer Efficiency Visible]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[AI tools are making the software development process visible for the first time. As tokens accumulate, a new productivity signal is emerging.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/ai-is-about-to-make-developer-efficiency-visible</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:14:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[AI Isn’t Replacing Developers. It’s Shrinking the Team.]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[AI Isn’t Replacing Developers. It’s Replacing the Space Between Them.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/ai-isnt-replacing-developers-its-shrinking-the-team</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 03:36:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>ai-development</category>
      <category>architecture</category>
      <category>consulting</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[AI for Creatives Isn’t Art Generation. It’s Operator-Controlled Tooling.]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[OpenClaw controlling Blender/Figma/After Effects is the real unlock for AI in creative teams: not generating art, but automating the click-loop work around creation.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/ai-for-creatives-isnt-art-generation-its-operator-controlled-tooling</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:59:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>openclaw</category>
      <category>creatives</category>
      <category>operators</category>
      <category>design</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Larry Effect: When Distribution Becomes a System You Build]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Larry drove 8M views in a week by running distribution on autopilot. The lesson isn’t the skill — it’s that distribution is becoming an operator problem with an agent solution.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/the-larry-effect-when-distribution-becomes-a-system-you-build</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:50:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>distribution</category>
      <category>agents</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[When AI Operators Left the Terminal: The Blender Signal]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Someone showed OpenClaw controlling Blender this week. The 3D artist comments said 'I need this.' That's a signal — and it tells you exactly what the next 18 months of operator adoption look like.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/when-ai-operators-left-the-terminal-the-blender-signal</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:12:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>agents</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Open Claw Memory Is Brittle - Here Is How Chief and I Are Fixing It]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Eight real failures from running an AI operations agent for a month. The problem isn't intelligence — it's architecture.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/open-claw-memory-is-brittle-here-is-how-chief-and-i-are-fixing-it</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>agents</category>
      <category>engineering</category>
      <category>operations</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[I Predicted One Senior Dev and an Army of Agents. Tonight It Happened.]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Last year I predicted the future dev team: one senior engineer and an army of AI agents. Tonight, from a phone at Epcot, I watched 10 AI agents run a standup, find production bugs, debate priorities, deploy fixes, and verify them. The prediction is no longer a prediction.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/i-predicted-one-senior-dev-and-an-army-of-agents-tonight-it-happened</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 04:01:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>agents</category>
      <category>openclaw</category>
      <category>building-in-public</category>
      <category>mission-command</category>
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      <category>voicecommit</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Your AI Agent Already Had File Access. Here's Why Obsidian CLI Changes Everything Anyway.]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Obsidian 1.12 shipped a CLI. The internet yawned — agents could already read files. They're missing the point entirely.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/your-ai-agent-already-had-file-access-heres-why-obsidian-cli-changes-everything-anyway</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 03:58:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>ai</category>
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      <category>agents</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Flying West]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A Razorfish call, an Oakley project, and two and a half years of flying every other week changed how I worked—and turned me into a consultant.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/flying-west</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>career</category>
      <category>consulting</category>
      <category>travel</category>
      <category>personal</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Industry Just Validated What I've Been Building All Year]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A great video just described the AI development revolution happening right now. I've been writing about it — and building it — for months. Here are the receipts.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/the-industry-just-validated-what-ive-been-building-all-year</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>ai-development</category>
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      <category>claude-code</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Building a Customer Radar with OpenClaw]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Instead of shouting into the void, I built a system to notice patterns in real conversations using OpenClaw to measure real product-market fit signals.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/building-a-customer-radar-with-openclaw</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:46:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>openclaw</category>
      <category>customer-discovery</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[My First Week with OpenClaw: From Skeptic to Believer]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[I spent 10 days building an AI workforce. Then Anthropic made my tool change its name. This is the real story — crashes, renames, and shipping anyway.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/my-first-week-with-openclaw-from-skeptic-to-believer</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>agents</category>
      <category>clawdbot</category>
      <category>moltbot</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why I’m Done Trying to Make X Make Sense]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Untitled Post]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/why-im-done-trying-to-make-x-make-sense</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why This Feature Shipped in Hours (And Why Most Don’t)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A real feature shipped in hours — not because of AI magic, but because the architecture already fit. How planning with Claude Code made the difference.Untitled Post]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/why-this-feature-shipped-in-hours-and-why-most-dont</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 04:27:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>ai</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Two Weeks of Real-World Building with Claude Code Revealed]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Notes from two weeks of real-world building with Claude Code—what changed, what didn’t, and what became visible once the tools stayed open during actual work.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/what-two-weeks-of-real-world-building-with-claude-code-revealed</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      
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      <title><![CDATA[What Junior Developers Should Be Focusing on in 2026]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Discover what junior developers should focus on in 2026, from AI-assisted coding to core fundamentals, and learn how to adapt your skills to modern workflows.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/what-junior-developers-should-be-focusing-on-in-2026</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 03:07:41 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>ai</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Vibe Coding Isn’t the Problem - Vague Thinking Is]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Discover why vibe coding is not the real problem in AI-assisted development and how clear thinking, intent, and constraints turn it into a powerful workflow]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/vibe-coding-isnt-the-problem-vague-thinking-is</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 03:30:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>ai</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Should You Do With All Your ChatGPT Conversations?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Learn what to do with your ChatGPT conversations, when to archive or delete threads, and how to keep the AI reasoning that actually shapes your work]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/what-should-you-do-with-all-your-chatgpt-conversations</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 02:31:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>ai</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Sunday Nights Have Been Telling Me]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[What Sunday Nights Have Been Telling Me]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/what-sunday-nights-have-been-telling-me</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:26:27 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>writing</category>
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      <category>personal</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[When AI Exposes a Leadership Problem]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Discover how AI can expose deeper leadership and communication problems, and learn what it really reveals about trust, culture, and decision making in teams]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/when-ai-exposes-a-leadership-problem</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 04:44:22 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>ai</category>
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      <category>writing</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why Travel Unlocks My Best Ideas]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Discover why travel, hotels and movement spark my most creative ideas, boost deep work, and strip away fake productivity so real focus finally shows up]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/why-travel-unlocks-my-best-ideas</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 05:10:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>travel</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Quiet AI Power Gap Most CTOs Are Creating Without Realizing It]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[CTOs face a growing AI power gap as quiet users gain leverage and honest engineers fall behind. Learn how culture, ethics, and leadership decisions shape AI risk]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/the-quiet-ai-power-gap-most-ctos-are-creating-without-realizing-it</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 03:51:30 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
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      <category>leadership</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[BlackOps Center: The Accidental Product That Became My Next Chapter]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[BlackOps Center: The Accidental Product That Became My Next Chapter]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/blackops-center-the-accidental-product-that-became-my-next-chapter</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 03:24:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[AI Could Make Your Team 10× Faster. Here’s Why Enterprise Won’t Let It.]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[AI can 10× developer productivity, but enterprise culture blocks it at every turn. Inside: the fear, politics, and outdated processes that keep teams from using the tools that would make them faster.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/ai-could-make-your-team-10x-faster</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 03:33:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Future Dev Team: One Senior Engineer and an Army of AI Agents]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Learn how Mission-Command Development lets a senior engineer direct AI agents to deliver faster, higher-quality software in 2025’s competitive tech landscape.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/future-dev-team-senior-engineer-ai-agents</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2025 04:19:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>ai</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[How I Created Mission-Command Development (The Backstory)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[How a single senior developer with AI agents can replace entire development teams, transforming software delivery from slow team coordination to rapid mission command execution.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/mission_command_development</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>architecture</category>
      <category>writing</category>
      <category>ai</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Idea That Hit Me 2,500 Miles from My Laptop (And Sparked a New Dev Tool)]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[How a vacation without my laptop led me to build VoiceCommit - an AI-powered voice-first tool that turns spoken commerce and development ideas into GitHub Issues, PRs, and updates.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/voicecommit-hikes-to-hotfixes</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>travel</category>
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      <category>writing</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Command-Driven Development Logging with Visual Progress: A Better Way to Track Development with Claude Code]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[How I created and use a command-driven system in my everyday commerce development process with Claude Code to document progress with visual screenshots - giving me complete control over when and how enterprise development gets documented.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/command-driven-development-logging-claude</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[I Asked AI to Make My Site 'Pop' — It Built Asteroids Instead]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A casual evening with Claude Code turned into shipping a fully-featured Asteroids easter egg]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/building-80s-easter-egg-with-claude-code</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://benenewton.com/blog/building-80s-easter-egg-with-claude-code</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>claude-code</category>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>easter-eggs</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Claude Code Is More Than a Dev Assistant—It’s My Project Manager]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Discover how combining Claude Code with a simple ROADMAP.md file transformed my personal project management and delivered consistent progress on my blog.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/claude-code-roadmap-management</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://benenewton.com/blog/claude-code-roadmap-management</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>claude-code</category>
      <category>developer-tools</category>
      <category>workflow</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[When AI Goes Off the Rails]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Reflections on the challenges of working with AI agents in development and how teams can adapt]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/when-ai-goes-off-the-rails</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://benenewton.com/blog/when-ai-goes-off-the-rails</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>ai</category>
      <category>architecture</category>
      <category>workflow</category>
      <category>tools</category>
      <category>leadership</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Navigating Your Career Path as a Developer: From Junior to Principal and Beyond]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Career guidance from 30 years in commerce development - from accidental start to Commerce Frontend Specialist. Navigate your tech career with insights on continuous learning, mentorship, and strategic growth in e-commerce.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/navigating-your-career-path</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>career</category>
      <category>leadership</category>
      <category>writing</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[How I Add the Weather to My Obsidian Daily Note]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Use iOS (or macOS) Shortcuts to add the day's weather for my location to my Obsidian Daily Note.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/adding-weather-to-obsidian-daily-note</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>obsidian</category>
      <category>workflow</category>
      <category>productivity</category>
      <category>tools</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[How I Use iOS Shortcuts to Add Today's Local Weather to My Obsidian Daily Note]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Use iOS (or macOS) Shortcuts to add the day's weather for my location to my Obsidian Daily Note.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/obsidian-weather-ios-shortcuts</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>obsidian</category>
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      <category>productivity</category>
      <category>tools</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Automating My Obsidian Daily Note]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[How I use iOS Shortcuts to automatically create and populate my daily note.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/automating-obsidian-daily-note</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://benenewton.com/blog/automating-obsidian-daily-note</guid>
      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>obsidian</category>
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      <category>productivity</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Quickly Add VSCode to Your iPad]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A quick walkthrough of how to add VSCode to your iPad home screen.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/quickly-add-vscode-to-your-ipad</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://benenewton.com/blog/quickly-add-vscode-to-your-ipad</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>vscode</category>
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      <category>productivity</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[How I Import My Meetings Into My Obsidian Daily Note]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[How I automate importing my Obsidian daily note's meeting schedule from my Outlook calendar events.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/importing-meetings-obsidian</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>obsidian</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[5 VSCode Extensions I Use Daily to Manage My Remote Teams]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Essential VSCode extensions for commerce frontend development and team leadership. Tools that enable efficient development across multiple e-commerce projects and remote team management.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/5-vscode-extensions</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://benenewton.com/blog/5-vscode-extensions</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>vscode</category>
      <category>developer-tools</category>
      <category>productivity</category>
      <category>workflow</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[How I View My Latest Readwise Highlights in My Obsidian Daily Note]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[I created an Obsidian Dataview query to view my latest Readwise highlights daily.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/readwise-highlights-obsidian</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>obsidian</category>
      <category>workflow</category>
      <category>productivity</category>
      <category>tools</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[First Look at the Official Readwise Obsidian Plugin]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[A rundown of the official Obsidian plugin from Readwise]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/readwise-obsidian-plugin</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
      <category>obsidian</category>
      <category>developer-tools</category>
      <category>productivity</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[My Obsidian Daily Note Template]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[How I use Obsidian to track my day-to-day.]]></description>
      <link>https://benenewton.com/blog/my-obsidian-daily-note-template</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://benenewton.com/blog/my-obsidian-daily-note-template</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>no-reply@benenewton.com (Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist)</author>
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