<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>X64Tyko — Engineering</title><description>Systems work: engine architecture, data-oriented design, and hard looks at patterns that get repeated without their reasons.</description><link>https://x64tyko.github.io/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Immutability Is an Optimization, Not a Virtue</title><link>https://x64tyko.github.io/blog/immutability-is-not-a-virtue/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://x64tyko.github.io/blog/immutability-is-not-a-virtue/</guid><description>React&apos;s own docs call it an optimization. It gets taught as the Right Way. Teaching a rule without its reason produces people who follow the rule and never learn the judgement, and the modern web is the bill for that.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>architecture</category><category>react</category><category>performance</category><category>data-oriented-design</category></item><item><title>Rebuilding this site</title><link>https://x64tyko.github.io/blog/rebuilding-this-site/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://x64tyko.github.io/blog/rebuilding-this-site/</guid><description>This domain used to host a React tutorial with a half-finished tic-tac-toe board on it. Here&apos;s what replaced it, and why.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>meta</category><category>astro</category></item></channel></rss>