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        <description>Research portfolio covering Trauma &amp; Disability Studies, Digital Humanities, Postcolonial Literature, and Computational Literary Analysis.</description>
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        <description>Technical Resume of Rantideb Howlader - Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)</description>
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        <description>Academic Portfolio and Research Profile of Rantideb Howlader</description>
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        <title>Logging Off For A While</title>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A short, quiet note about stepping away for a while and holding onto small things.]]></description>
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        <title>How I Fixed LCP, TBT, and 1,400 KiB of Wrong Images on a WordPress LiteSpeed Site (And What Broke Along the Way)</title>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A real LiteSpeed Cache WordPress Core Web Vitals audit - from PSI 78 to 99. How deferring jQuery, fixing sizes=100vw, and turning off JS Combine fixed LCP and TBT. Including the regression that dropped the score to 74 overnight.]]></description>
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        <title>Implementing Grace: A PyTorch Case Study in Dual-Stream Dysfluency Models</title>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The practical companion to The Topography of Hesitation. A technical case study detailing the implementation of the dual-stream GraceJoin architecture, Neural ODE effort streams, and integrating hesitation topology into LLM agents via MCP.]]></description>
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        <title>Forgetting Is Not Deletion: The Verification Gap in Machine Unlearning</title>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[An empirical and conceptual critique of the 'verification gap' in machine unlearning, demonstrating that passing a membership audit does not imply actual forgetting of generalizable relationships.]]></description>
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        <title>The Topography of Hesitation: Non-Markovian Ruptures and the Mathematical Failure of Autoregressive Models on Dysfluent Speech</title>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A formal argument that autoregressive speech models do not merely struggle with stuttered speech but are mathematically mandated to erase it, and a proposed continuous-time latent architecture that encodes hesitation as effort rather than collapsing it into a void.]]></description>
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        <title>Beyond RAG: Using Multi-Agent Systems for Deep Cultural and Literary Analysis</title>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[An algorithmic breakdown of why dense vector retrieval fails on narrative structures, and how to architect stateful, graph-based Multi-Agent Systems for rigorous computational literary analysis, featuring a practical case study on Rabindranath Tagore.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>Running Local LLM Agents in Kubernetes: A Practitioner&apos;s Guide to vLLM on EKS</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/vllm-on-eks</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/vllm-on-eks</guid>
        <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A hands-on guide to deploying high-throughput, self-hosted LLMs using vLLM on Amazon EKS, covering GPU node groups, autoscaling, and performance tuning.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>Agent Looping and Systems Engineering: Building Reliable AI</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/what-is-agent-looping</link>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Prompt engineering is a temporary fix for AI slop. True reliability comes from systems engineering. This post explores agent looping, Eval gates, and the GBRAIN architecture.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>Building a Multi-Writer Serverless SQLite Engine on Amazon S3</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/s3-db-wal-hands-on-guide</link>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[How to run SQLite in WAL mode on Amazon S3 for serverless applications.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>Letter to EveryOne</title>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I have a call.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>System Design Basics Databases Message Queues and Authentication</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/databases-and-message-queues-system-design</link>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A complete deep dive into databases message queues authentication and proxies. All the core system design concepts explained simply with real examples and diagrams.]]></description>
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        <title>System Design Basics Caching How to Make Your App Fast</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/caching-system-design-guide</link>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Caching stores frequently used data in fast storage so your app does not hit the database every single time. Here is how it works from scratch with real examples.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>System Design Basics Scalability and Load Balancing</title>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Breaking down system design concepts like scaling load balancers and redundancy into plain English. No jargon just common sense.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>Why I Use A Tally Counter For Daily Meditation And Chanting</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/tally-counter-japa-meditation-guide</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/tally-counter-japa-meditation-guide</guid>
        <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A deeply personal look at how a simple mechanical tally counter became my greatest tool for finding peace devotion and focus in a noisy world.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>Reproducible Research Notebooks for Digital Humanities</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/reproducible-research-notebooks-digital-humanities</link>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A practical guide to building reproducible research notebooks for digital humanities projects, with runnable code, open datasets, and methods for cultural interpretability.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>Digital Humanities Methods: A Comparison Guide</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/digital-humanities-methods-comparison-guide</link>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A detailed comparison of digital humanities methods for cultural analysis, covering topic modeling, network analysis, stylometry, and cultural interpretability with practical guidance on choosing the right approach.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>Cultural Interpretability: Bengali Literature Case Study</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/cultural-interpretability-case-study-bengali-literature</link>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A case study applying cultural interpretability methods to examine how language models represent Bengali literary traditions, with full reproducible code and datasets.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>Download: DH Notebook for Cultural Analysis</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/download-dh-notebook-cultural-analysis</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/download-dh-notebook-cultural-analysis</guid>
        <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A ready-to-use reproducible research notebook template for digital humanities cultural analysis, with pre-configured environments, runnable code examples, and step-by-step instructions.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>DH Consultancy and Research Collaboration Services</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/digital-humanities-consultancy-research-collaboration</link>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[How I help researchers build reproducible digital humanities projects, from method selection to publication-ready notebooks, with cultural interpretability expertise.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>Kiro vs Cursor vs Windsurf vs Claude Code vs Codex vs Antigravity: What I Actually Use as an SRE</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/kiro-vs-cursor-vs-windsurf-vs-claude-vs-codex-vs-antigravity</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/kiro-vs-cursor-vs-windsurf-vs-claude-vs-codex-vs-antigravity</guid>
        <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I ran all six major AI coding tools through the same five real infrastructure tasks. Terraform modules, Go refactors across 12 files, Kubernetes silent failures, Datadog SLO monitors, incident runbooks. Here is every command I ran, every diff I got back, every time a tool failed mid-task, and which one I actually reach for now.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>I Built a Bhagavad Gita Reader With Three Languages</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/bhagavad-gita-reader</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/bhagavad-gita-reader</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I built a full Bhagavad Gita reader with all 700 verses, audio recitations, and translations in English, Hindi, and Bengali. Here is what I built, what the Gita actually says, and why I felt compelled to make this.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>Building Neuroinclusive AI with Model Context Protocol (MCP)</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/neuroinclusive-mcp</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/neuroinclusive-mcp</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A step by step, beginner to expert guide to building a Neuroinclusive Toolkit MCP server in Python and TypeScript, with four working tools, security and consent guardrails, WCAG mapped audits, ready to paste prompts, and full Claude Desktop and Claude Code setup.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>Next.js 15 on Azure Container Apps: A Production-Ready Deployment Guide</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/nextjs-15-azure-container-apps-guide</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/nextjs-15-azure-container-apps-guide</guid>
        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Deploy Next.js 15 to Azure Container Apps with scale-to-zero, Easy Auth, managed identities, Front Door, and OpenTelemetry for production workloads.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>Cultural Mechanistic Interpretability: Reading Cultural Memory Inside Large Language Models</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/cultural-mechanistic-interpretability-digital-humanities</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/cultural-mechanistic-interpretability-digital-humanities</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A new digital humanities method that reads cultural memory inside large language models using sparse autoencoders, with formal metrics and runnable code.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>How to Build a URL Shortener on AWS in 2026: The Complete End-to-End Guide</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/how-to-build-a-url-shortener-on-aws-in-2026</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/how-to-build-a-url-shortener-on-aws-in-2026</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Build a modern, serverless URL shortener on AWS in 2026. Learn how to use CloudFront, Lambda, DynamoDB, and the new S3 Files feature for high-scale routing.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>আইসিসিআর (ICCR) স্কলারশিপ ডিকোডিং: আমার অভিজ্ঞতা ও বাস্তব কিছু পরামর্শ</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/iccr-scholarship.bn</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/iccr-scholarship.bn</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[আইসিসিআর স্কলারশিপের আবেদন প্রক্রিয়া এবং ভারতে জীবনযাপন নিয়ে আমার ব্যক্তিগত অভিজ্ঞতা ও গবেষণার সংকলন। ইন্টারভিউ প্রস্তুতি থেকে শুরু করে এখানকার বাস্তব চ্যালেঞ্জগুলো সহজভাবে বুঝে নিন।]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>My ICCR Journey: Personal Experiences &amp; Insights (AY 2026-27)</title>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Sharing personal experiences and practical research on the ICCR scholarship. An honest look at the application process, interview preparation, and the real-life adjustments of studying in India.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>Part 1 - The S3 Files EC2 Infrastructure Handbook Manual Configuration &amp; Architecture</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/amazon-s3-files-ec2-linux</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/amazon-s3-files-ec2-linux</guid>
        <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The definitive manual for engineering Amazon S3 Files on EC2. Step-by-step setup of VPC mounting, IAM trust policies, and NFS v4.1 client installation.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>Part 2 - The S3 Files Lambda Handbook Serverless Persistence &amp; Access Points</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/amazon-s3-files-lambda-serverless</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/amazon-s3-files-lambda-serverless</guid>
        <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[High-authority manual for mounting Amazon S3 Files on AWS Lambda. Engineering persistent storage for serverless using Access Points and POSIX mappings.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>Part 3 - The S3 Files Terraform Masterclass Modular Automation &amp; Workloads</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/amazon-s3-files-terraform-automation</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/amazon-s3-files-terraform-automation</guid>
        <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[High-authority guide to automating Amazon S3 Files with Terraform. Architecting modular storage, ECS Fargate workarounds, and cross-platform automation.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>Building the Web I Needed: Stammering, Disability Studies, and Neuroinclusive UX Design</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/accessibility-stammering-academic-reflection</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/accessibility-stammering-academic-reflection</guid>
        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Why stammering belongs in accessibility conversations, and how design choices can remove silent barriers.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>How I Made My Next.js Portfolio Actually Production-Ready (For $0)</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/production-ready-nextjs-ci-cd-edge-firewall</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/production-ready-nextjs-ci-cd-edge-firewall</guid>
        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Most developer portfolios are one bad commit away from breaking in production. Here's how I added ten practical reliability layers, from CI/CD and API security to dependency policy, performance budgets, observability, and release governance.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>Kiro IDE: Building a Production API With Spec-Driven AI (Hands-On Tutorial)</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/kiro-ide-spec-driven-development</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/kiro-ide-spec-driven-development</guid>
        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A step-by-step walkthrough of building a real feature using Kiro IDE, from installing the tool to shipping tested, documented, convention-compliant code. No theory. Just the build.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>I&apos;m Officially an AWS Community Builder! The Complete Guide to What It Is, What You Get, and How to Make the Most of It</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/aws-community-builder</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/aws-community-builder</guid>
        <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[I have been accepted into the AWS Community Builders program in the Dev Tools category. Instead of just announcing it, here is a complete guide: what the program is, every benefit you get, how to apply, what the onboarding process looks like, and a practical first-30-days playbook. Bookmark this one.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>The Topography of Trauma: Mahmud of Ghazni&apos;s Ideological Rupture and the Chola Response in Amish Tripathi&apos;s The Chola Tigers</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/chola-tigers-review</link>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A look at Amish Tripathi's 2025 epic, focusing on how it handles the history of Mahmud of Ghazni and the Chola response.]]></description>
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        <title>The Gangster in the Garden: A Review of Mother Mary Comes to Me</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/mother-mary-comes-to-me-review</link>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A forensic accounting of Arundhati Roy's first memoir. We explore how Mary Roy - the 'shelter and the storm' - shaped the writer who would go on to win the Booker Prize and challenge the Indian state.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>Build Your Own HTTP Server</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/build-your-own-http-server</link>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Learn protocol engineering by building an HTTP/1.1 server from scratch in Python. Sockets, headers, and concurrency explained simply.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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        <title>Build Your Own HTTP/3 Server</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/http3-quic-server</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/http3-quic-server</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A massive guide to building a modern HTTP/3 and QUIC server from the ground up using Python. We move beyond the limits of TCP into the world of UDP-based protocols.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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      <item>
        <title>Algorithmic Dysfluency: Why AI Cannot Hear the Stammering Subject</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/algorithmic-dysfluency</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/algorithmic-dysfluency</guid>
        <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Why AI speech recognition fails people who stammer. Interrogating Whisper through the lens of Berardi and Fanon to argue that the stammer is a form of political refusal.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
      </item>
      <item>
        <title>My Secure AI Agent Setup: Building a Better Playground with Nix</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/securing-ai-agents-with-nix-and-bubblewrap</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/securing-ai-agents-with-nix-and-bubblewrap</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Don't let AI agents have access to your whole system. Here's how I built a secure sandbox using Nix and Bubblewrap to keep my coding agents in check.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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      <item>
        <title>Goodbye reCAPTCHA, Hello Turnstile: Why I Switched (Next.js Guide)</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/migrating-from-recaptcha-to-turnstile</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/migrating-from-recaptcha-to-turnstile</guid>
        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Struggling with reCAPTCHA's impact on user experience and privacy? This guide walks you through migrating to Cloudflare Turnstile in Next.js-improving speed, security, and mobile UX in under 15 minutes.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
      </item>
      <item>
        <title>EKS Networking Deep Dive: Why Your Pods Can&apos;t Talk</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/eks-networking-vpc-cni</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/eks-networking-vpc-cni</guid>
        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Kubernetes networking is notoriously hard. Here is a guide to AWS EKS networking, VPC CNI, and how to debug DNS issues in your cluster.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
      </item>
      <item>
        <title>Observability 101: Why Logs Are Not Enough</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/observability-metrics-tracing</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/observability-metrics-tracing</guid>
        <pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Monitoring tells you something is broken; observability tells you why. A look at Metrics, Logs, Traces, and how to handle cardinality explosions.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
      </item>
      <item>
        <title>Breaking Production on Purpose: A Guide to Chaos Engineering</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/chaos-engineering-aws-fis</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/chaos-engineering-aws-fis</guid>
        <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Why would you crash your own server? Because someone else will eventually. Learn how to use AWS FIS for Game Days and build more resilient systems.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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      <item>
        <title>Disaster Recovery: The Art of Sleeping at Night</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/disaster-recovery-rto-rpo</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/disaster-recovery-rto-rpo</guid>
        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[RTO and RPO aren't just acronyms-they're the difference between keeping your job and losing it. A guide to surviving AWS outages and ransomware.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
      </item>
      <item>
        <title>FinOps 101: How to Stop AWS From Bankrupting You</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/finops-101-cost-optimization</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/finops-101-cost-optimization</guid>
        <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The cloud isn't free. Here's my survival guide for AWS cost optimization-Spot instances, Savings Plans, and how to avoid the NAT Gateway trap.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
      </item>
      <item>
        <title>The Docker Diet: How to Slim Down Your Fat Containers</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/docker-diet-container-optimization</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/docker-diet-container-optimization</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Stop shipping 1GB images for a 5MB app. Learn how to slim down your Docker containers using multi-stage builds and distroless images.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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      <item>
        <title>The Perfect Pipeline: How to Ship Code Without Crashing Production</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/perfect-pipeline-blue-green</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/perfect-pipeline-blue-green</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Shipping code shouldn't be stressful. A look at Blue/Green deployments, Canary releases, and how to build a CI/CD pipeline that lets you sleep at night.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
      </item>
      <item>
        <title>Bash for Cloud Engineers: The Lost Art of Text Processing</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/bash-for-cloud-engineers</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/bash-for-cloud-engineers</guid>
        <pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Why click when you can script? Learn how to use sed, awk, and grep to parse logs and automate deployments like a pro.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
      </item>
      <item>
        <title>Git Under the Hood: The DevOps Engineer&apos;s &apos;Undo&apos; Button</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/git-internals-undo-button</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/git-internals-undo-button</guid>
        <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Stop memorizing commands and start understanding the graph. Learn how Git actually works under the hood-blobs, trees, and how to fix a detached HEAD without panicking.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
      </item>
      <item>
        <title>Terraform State Surgery: The Senior Engineer&apos;s Guide to Moving Resources Without Downtime</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/terraform-state-surgery</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/terraform-state-surgery</guid>
        <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Learn how to move resources in Terraform without breaking production. A guide to using 'state mv', 'rm', and 'import' for refactoring infrastructure safely.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
      </item>
      <item>
        <title>Glitch Poetics: The Political Ontology of the Refused Body</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/glitch-poetics-disability</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/glitch-poetics-disability</guid>
        <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A rigorous computational and theoretical analysis of the 'Glitch' as a site of political refusal. Utilizing High-Dimensional Semantic Analysis (BERT), T-SNE visualization, and post-colonial theory, this research article mathematically proves the semantic identity between 'Glitch Aesthetics' and 'Disability Politics'.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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      <item>
        <title>The Theology of Code: Algorithmic Ijtihad in the Age of Artificial Gnosis</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/theology-of-code</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/theology-of-code</guid>
        <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A theological auditing of Artificial Intelligence. By applying Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem to Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh), this study argues that AI is incapable of 'Ijtihad' (Reasoning). It is a machine of 'Taqlid' (Blind Imitation) that threatens to freeze the Islamic tradition in a stasis of historical data.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
      </item>
      <item>
        <title>The Physics of Trauma: Network Latency and the Crip Chronotope</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/trauma-time-physics</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/trauma-time-physics</guid>
        <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A rigorous physical and computational analysis of Trauma as a temporal anomaly. Integrating Einstein's Special Relativity (Time Dilation) with Network Engineering (Buffer Bloat), this study proves that Post-Traumatic Stress is not a psychological disorder but a 'Synchronization Failure' between the somatic clock and the colonial clock.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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      <item>
        <title>Halal Sex: Redefining Intimacy and Faith in North America - A Review</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/halal-sex-book-review</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/halal-sex-book-review</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A comprehensive review of Sheima Benembarek's 'Halal Sex', exploring the complex intersection of faith, intimacy, and female identity for Muslims in North America. This essay examines historical context, personal narratives, and the challenges of reconciling tradition with modern desires.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
      </item>
      <item>
        <title>Fatima Mernissi: The Godmother of Islamic Feminism and the Unveiling of History</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/fatima-mernissi-islamic-feminism</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/fatima-mernissi-islamic-feminism</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A tribute to Fatima Mernissi, the pioneering sociologist who questioned the Prophetic tradition, exposed the 'Male Elite', and argued for Islamic equality.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
      </item>
      <item>
        <title>Homosexuality in Islam: Scott Kugle and the Hermeneutics of Justice</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/scott-kugle-homosexuality-islam</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/scott-kugle-homosexuality-islam</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[An in-depth exploration of Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle's seminal work 'Homosexuality in Islam'. This essay deconstructs the traditional interpretation of the Story of Lut, examines the theological validity of same-sex unions through the lens of 'Fitrah', and challenges the legal reliability of Hadith used to condemn queer Muslims.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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      <item>
        <title>Sexual Ethics and Islam: A Feminist Reflection on Kecia Ali&apos;s Magnum Opus</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/sexual-ethics-islam-kecia-ali</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/sexual-ethics-islam-kecia-ali</guid>
        <pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Exploring the tension between classical fiqh and modern feminist ethics in Kecia Ali's 'Sexual Ethics and Islam'. This essay dissects concepts like 'Milk al-Nikah' (ownership of the marriage tie), the legality of consent, and the urgent need for a new Islamic jurisprudence of intimacy.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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      <item>
        <title>From Zero to Cloud: My Personal Journey into AWS (2026) - A path I am following</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/aws-zero-to-hero-journey</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/aws-zero-to-hero-journey</guid>
        <pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[My personal field notes from learning Amazon Web Services. I dug deep into the kernel, mastered 'sed', and broke production with Terraform so you don't have to. This is the path I took from 'absolute beginner' to AWS Community Builder.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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      <item>
        <title>KodeKloud 100 Days of Cloud: Essential Linux Security Guide (Days 1-3)</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/kodekloud-100-days-tasks-1-3</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/kodekloud-100-days-tasks-1-3</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A practical guide to the first three tasks of the KodeKloud 100 Days of Cloud challenge. meaningful detailed tutorials on configuring non-interactive shells, managing temporary users, and securing SSH root access for production server.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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      <item>
        <title>The Ultimate Handbook: Hosting a Dynamic Portfolio on AWS (S3, Lambda, API Gateway)</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/aws-s3-portfolio-hosting-guide</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/aws-s3-portfolio-hosting-guide</guid>
        <pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Build a serverless dynamic portfolio from scratch using AWS S3, Lambda, and API Gateway. Complete beginner-friendly guide with step-by-step deployment instructions.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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      <item>
        <title>The Silent Killer in Your AWS IAM Policies: Escalating Privileges via PassRole</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/aws-iam-passrole-vulnerability</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/aws-iam-passrole-vulnerability</guid>
        <pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A deep dive into one of the most dangerous and overlooked AWS misconfigurations: the iam:PassRole permission. Learn how we discovered a silent privilege escalation path in our CI/CD pipeline that could have compromised our entire production environment, and the comprehensive, architectural fix we implemented using Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) and SCPs.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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      <item>
        <title>JavaScript Has a Flair for Drama: 6 Concepts That Break Minds and this</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/javascript-concepts-explained</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/javascript-concepts-explained</guid>
        <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Master JavaScript's toughest concepts: async flow, closures, 'this' keyword, prototypes, type coercion, and the event loop. Explained with wit, clarity, and real examples.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
      </item>
      <item>
        <title>AI Prompting: Essential Foundation Techniques</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/ai-prompt</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/ai-prompt</guid>
        <pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Master prompt engineering with role-based prompting, system message optimization, and structured frameworks. Learn advanced techniques for ChatGPT and LLMs with practical examples.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
      </item>
      <item>
        <title>My First Month as a Site Reliability Engineer at Airbnb</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/airbnb-sre-first-month</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/airbnb-sre-first-month</guid>
        <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A comprehensive deep-dive into my first 30 days as an SRE at Airbnb: automating monitoring for 50+ microservices, building Redis observability tooling, implementing SLO enforcement in CI/CD, conducting chaos engineering experiments, and streamlining incident management using Go, JavaScript, and Kubernetes.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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      <item>
        <title>No One to Catch Me: But I Never Quit</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/do-hard-things</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/do-hard-things</guid>
        <pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A story for anyone who feels alone in the fight. For those who keep going not because someone's watching, but because quitting was never an option. Motivation for developers.]]></description>
        <dc:creator>Rantideb Howlader</dc:creator>
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      <item>
        <title>My Apologies</title>
        <link>https://ranti.dev/blog/apologies</link>
        <guid>https://ranti.dev/blog/apologies</guid>
        <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Your love didn’t calm the storm, but it made me feel less alone. It didn’t erase the pain, but reminded me I have you by my side in the rain. My wounds remain, yet you see beauty in my scars. My fears linger, but your hand makes it safe to be scared. Bad days still come, but your love does so much-it reminds me I’m never on my own.]]></description>
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