<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-stylesheet href="/rss-styles.xsl" type="text/xsl"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Noah Qin - Writing</title><description>International High Schooler, Builder, Researcher.</description><link>https://noahnote.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Echoes of &apos;25 and the Dawn of &apos;26</title><link>https://noahnote.com/blog/2026-new-year/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noahnote.com/blog/2026-new-year/</guid><description>Reflections on 2025 and setting the stage for a more impactful 2026.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:50:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Illusion of Certainty</title><link>https://noahnote.com/blog/ai-illusion-of-certainty/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noahnote.com/blog/ai-illusion-of-certainty/</guid><description>After heavy use of AI coding assistants during development, I went digging into why they fail — and what I found changed how I work with them.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Building NightGuard: The Irony of Sleep</title><link>https://noahnote.com/blog/building-nightguard/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noahnote.com/blog/building-nightguard/</guid><description>How staying up late for 3 months helped me build an app to fix my sleep.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 22:15:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Building a Multi-Language Version Manager from Scratch</title><link>https://noahnote.com/blog/building-vex/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noahnote.com/blog/building-vex/</guid><description>Why I got tired of nvm, rustup, pyenv all fighting over my home directory — and decided to build Vex.</description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The First Time Someone Paid for My Code</title><link>https://noahnote.com/blog/freelancing-reflection/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noahnote.com/blog/freelancing-reflection/</guid><description>What freelancing taught me about validation, blind spots, and why communication is engineering.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Swift Student Challenge — I Didn&apos;t Make It</title><link>https://noahnote.com/blog/ssc-reflection/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noahnote.com/blog/ssc-reflection/</guid><description>My SSC submission wasn&apos;t selected. Here&apos;s what I think went wrong, and what I&apos;ll do differently next time.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>USACO: From Bronze to Platinum</title><link>https://noahnote.com/blog/usaco-achievement/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noahnote.com/blog/usaco-achievement/</guid><description>How specific problems changed the way I think — binary search under adversarial conditions, decomposing coupled systems, and turning exponential problems into linear ones.</description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Reflections: Vivo Developer Conference 2025</title><link>https://noahnote.com/blog/vivo-dev-conf/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://noahnote.com/blog/vivo-dev-conf/</guid><description>Witnessing the intersection of BlueLM AI and humanistic technology.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>