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        <title>James Acres</title>
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        <description>I'm creating awesome, here are some of my thoughts.</description>
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            <title><![CDATA[2026 Update]]></title>
            <link>https://jamesacres.co.uk/2026/02/2026-update</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hi 👋 here's an update after 2025 as we go into 2026!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Coding with Serena and Claude Desktop via MCP]]></title>
            <link>https://jamesacres.co.uk/2025/05/coding-with-serena-and-claude-desktop-via-mcp</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today I did an experiment getting AI to implement a change by itself, without using an IDE. I setup the open source Serena which provides an MCP server locally, which you can hook into Claude Desktop.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[2025 Update]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hi 👋 here's an update after 2024 as we go into 2025!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Big change to Social Media and the Web]]></title>
            <link>https://jamesacres.co.uk/2025/01/20/change-of-social-media-and-the-web</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[My thoughts on the state of Social Media and the Web]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[An update to kick off 2024]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hi 👋 once again it's been a while, so here's an update to kick off 2024!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mental Health Awareness Week 2022]]></title>
            <link>https://jamesacres.co.uk/2022/05/08/mental-health-week-2022</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It's Mental Health Awareness Week, so I thought I'd get involved and share some of my own thoughts and resources I find interesting.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hello 2022 👋]]></title>
            <link>https://jamesacres.co.uk/2022/01/09/hello-2022</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This is my first post in a while, so here's an update on what's been happening and what's to come.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goals for 2020 and 2019 Retrospect]]></title>
            <link>https://jamesacres.co.uk/2020/01/22/goals-for-2020-and-2019-retrospect</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Setting goals for 2020 and looking back at 2019]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goals for 2019 and 2018 Retrospect]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Setting goals for 2019 and looking back at 2018]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[All change for 2019]]></title>
            <link>https://jamesacres.co.uk/2018/12/11/all-change-for-2019</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Joining the RoosterMoney team and leaving Lumina Learning]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Leading a Digital Transformation with IAM and Microservices]]></title>
            <link>https://jamesacres.co.uk/2018/03/10/leading-a-digital-transformation-with-iam-and-microservices</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Discussing migrating from a monolith to microservices and how to achieve it]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Using signed QR codes to digitally transform paper reports]]></title>
            <link>https://jamesacres.co.uk/2018/03/10/using-signed-qr-codes-to-digitally-transform-paper-reports</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Looking into using QR codes to share report data]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[2017 Retrospect]]></title>
            <link>https://jamesacres.co.uk/2018/01/13/2017-retrospect</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Looking back at 2017]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Lumina Learning augments paper based psychometric reports with digital mobile apps]]></title>
            <link>https://jamesacres.co.uk/2017/12/18/securely-augmenting-paper-based-psychometric-reports-with-native-apps-for-ios-and-android</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Sharing how Lumina took personality reports off the page and brought them to life by augmenting its flagship PDF paper based report with mobile apps for both iOS and Android]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Becoming a tech lead]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Overview of the things I have found useful as a new tech lead so far]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hey, this is an introduction to me]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Introduction to me, my goals and values]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Welcome!]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to my blog]]></description>
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