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      "summary": "GH-300 — prompt engineering, context crafting, data handling, content exclusions and responsible use. The exam on the assistant that is now part of how I work.",
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      "title": "Claude Certified Associate — Foundations",
      "summary": "Anthropic's associate-level credential for using Claude well: choosing the right model, writing prompts that hold up, checking the output, and knowing where the limits are.",
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      "title": "Facts, Not Stories",
      "summary": "The moment your brain turns one unseen message into a catastrophe — and a small, honest framework for keeping your calm from depending on someone else’s screen.",
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      "title": "Why an Actions job gets stuck in “queued”",
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      "title": "Stop wasting minutes: cancel superseded runs",
      "summary": "Push three times to a PR and you get three runs, two of them already pointless. A concurrency group cancels the stale ones automatically.",
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      "title": "Give GITHUB_TOKEN only what it needs",
      "summary": "Every run gets an automatic GITHUB_TOKEN, and its default scope depends on a setting you might not control. Declaring permissions yourself removes the guesswork.",
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      "summary": "Running Couchbase in support taught me the failure modes; the administrator cert made me formalise them. Buckets, XDCR, rebalances — and how I studied them.",
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      "title": "Couchbase Certified — Python Developer",
      "summary": "The developer track: SDKs, N1QL/SQL++, and the mental model shift from rows and joins to documents and keys. How I picked it up.",
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      "title": "Couchbase Certified — Architect",
      "summary": "The architect track pulls the admin and developer views together: sizing, services, replication topology, and designing for failure. My path through it.",
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      "title": "Dopamine",
      "summary": "Three habits that feel unrelated, run by one hijacked circuit. A calm, honest breakdown of how it works in the brain — and how it lets go.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-27T00:00:00.000Z",
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      "url": "https://kranthikiran.com/#/blog/error-budgets-in-one-minute",
      "title": "Error budgets, in one minute",
      "summary": "A 100% reliability target is a trap. Here is the small idea that lets teams move fast and stay stable at the same time.",
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