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<description><![CDATA[I'm Farith, a software engineer in Johor. This garden is named after the legendary Bayt al-Hikmah library — a place to store and share what I learn, mostly on web development and sometimes AI. Not rea]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Asshai and the Shadowlands]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Asshai and the Shadowlands Asshai (also called Asshai-by-the-Shadow) is the most famous city of dark magic in the world of Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire. Beyond it lie the grim Shadowlands and the cursed Stygai, the most feared place on the planet. See the overview in Mysterious Places Be]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Golden Empire of Yi-Ti]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Golden Empire of Yi-Ti The Golden Empire of Yi-Ti is the most advanced and wealthy human civilization in the far east of the Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire world — essentially this story's version of an ancient, grand, Chinese-style empire. See the overview in Mysterious Places Beyond West]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Mysterious Places Beyond Westeros]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Mysterious Places Beyond Westeros A beginner-friendly guide to the 24 most mysterious places in the world of Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire — the lands beyond the familiar map. Based on a YouTube video breakdown, but written so you need no prior knowledge. It also includes places the video]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Sothoryos]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Sothoryos is the huge, dangerous continent far to the south of Essos — a hot, wild land of jungles, deserts, and deadly creatures that few have ever explored successfully. See the overview in Mysterious Places Beyond Westeros.[^1] Attachments/KnownWorldMap.png What Is Sothoryos? Sothoryos is the mas]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Valyria and the Doom]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Valyria and the Doom Valyria was the capital of the mighty Valyrian Freehold — an ancient empire of dragonlords that ruled much of the world with dragons and sorcery. Then, in a single catastrophic event called the Doom of Valyria, it was destroyed. The area is now the deadly Smoking Sea. See the ov]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[West of Westeros]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[West of Westeros is the great unknown — the vast ocean called the Sunset Sea, and whatever lands might exist beyond the far western edge of the map. No one has ever crossed it and returned to prove what's there. See the overview in Mysterious Places Beyond Westeros.[^1] Attachments/KnownWorldMap.png]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[B-tree]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[B-tree A B-tree is a self-balancing tree data structure that keeps data sorted and supports search, insert, and delete in O(log n) time [^1]. Unlike a binary search tree (BST) where each node has at most two children, a B-tree node can hold many keys and many child pointers. This high fan-out is the]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[LSM tree]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[LSM Tree A Log-Structured Merge-tree (LSM tree) is a storage structure designed to make writes as fast as possible by turning random writes into sequential ones [^1]. Traditional disk-based structures like the B-tree update data in place, which means a write can trigger a random seek to wherever the]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization Flow]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization Flow The Device Authorization Flow is the way a device with no browser and no keyboard gets permission to use an API. Think of a smart TV, a speaker, a gaming console, or a kiosk. It can show things on a screen, but it has no easy way for you to type a password into it]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[OAuth 2.0]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[OAuth 2.0 OAuth 2.0 is the rulebook for getting permission. It answers the question: "what is this app allowed to do?" It lets one application ask a central server for a token that grants limited access to an API — without ever seeing the user's password. This is the authorization side of things (se]]></description>
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