<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>ITWorker.org — Sample stories</title><link>https://itworker-org.pages.dev</link><description>Stories, useful discoveries, and small steps forward for a life in technology.</description><item><title>[Fictional sample] The work that doesn’t make the release notes</title><link>https://itworker-org.pages.dev/stories/the-work-that-doesnt-make-the-release-notes/</link><guid>https://itworker-org.pages.dev/stories/the-work-that-doesnt-make-the-release-notes/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A fictional conversation about quiet expertise, useful documentation, and learning to recognise the work that keeps everything running.</description></item><item><title>[Fictional sample] A small website, after twenty years of big systems</title><link>https://itworker-org.pages.dev/stories/a-small-website-after-twenty-years/</link><guid>https://itworker-org.pages.dev/stories/a-small-website-after-twenty-years/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>An imagined developer returns to plain HTML and remembers why making something small can still feel like a big deal.</description></item><item><title>[Fictional sample] Making room to be a beginner again</title><link>https://itworker-org.pages.dev/stories/being-a-beginner-again/</link><guid>https://itworker-org.pages.dev/stories/being-a-beginner-again/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A fictional QA specialist trades an impossible learning list for one small exercise and a notebook of good questions.</description></item></channel></rss>