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      <title>WordPress is dead. Good.</title>
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      <description>WordPress won the small-business web by being the least worst option. With Middleman and Claude, that excuse is gone. A retiree with no technical background just shipped a better site in a weekend.</description>
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      <title>Your CTO is fleecing you (and AWS thanks you for it)</title>
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      <description>Your CTO isn't fleecing you on purpose. They're a nerd with toys, a CEO who can't push back, and an AWS bill that's eating the runway. Here's the pattern, the boring fix, and a red-flag checklist.</description>
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