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        "plaintext": "This is where it gets personal. Reach a little deeper and you'll find the artifacts of a life lived between standups."
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  "textContent": "Forget the stereotype of a pocket protector stuffed with pens. The modern software engineer's pockets tell a stranger, more caffeinated story. After an extremely unscientific survey of my own jeans, here's what I found.\nThe Essentials\nEvery engineer is carrying some version of this loadout, whether they admit it or not:\nA phone with 47 unread Slack notifications and a battery at 12%\nAt least one USB-C cable, hopelessly tangled with a USB-A adapter\nA crumpled receipt for an oat milk latte purchased \"for focus\"\nA laptop sticker that fell off and is now just... in the pocket\nThe Surprising Stuff\nThis is where it gets personal. Reach a little deeper and you'll find the artifacts of a life lived between standups.\n- A guitar pick (they don't play guitar anymore, but they might)\n- A worry stone, smoothed flat by a thousand failing CI pipelines\n- A single mechanical keyboard keycap, origin unknown\n- A fortune cookie slip that reads \"Your code will compile on the first try\" — kept ironically\nThe contents of an engineer's pocket are just their browser tabs made physical: too many, vaguely justified, and impossible to close.",
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