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      <description>Astro Rocket now has a scroll progress bar: a thin brand-coloured line that fills as you scroll. Here&apos;s how it works, where it lives, and how to enable it on any page.</description>
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      <description>A complete walkthrough of Astro Rocket&apos;s configuration options: 12 colour themes, OKLCH colours, typography, radius and shadow tokens, header styles, dark mode, and more.</description>
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      <description>End-to-end walkthrough of a simple property-alerts app — how to poll the PropertyFinder API, deduplicate results, and notify users when new listings appear.</description>
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      <description>A complete breakdown of every animation built into Astro Rocket — page transitions, scroll-triggered counters, the reactive header, card hovers, and the full micro-animation library.</description>
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      <description>Astro Rocket handles structured data, Open Graph, canonical URLs, sitemaps, and more out of the box. Here&apos;s exactly what ships and where to configure it.</description>
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      <description>Astro Rocket uses a three-tier token architecture with OKLCH colors. Change one value and the entire site updates. Here&apos;s how it works and how to make it yours.</description>
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      <description>Dark mode is the default experience in Astro Rocket — and that&apos;s a deliberate design decision. Here&apos;s the reasoning, the code, and exactly how to change it.</description>
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      <title>UAE real estate data sources compared: PropertyFinder, Bayut, and aggregators</title>
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      <description>Which UAE property data source fits your use case? A side-by-side look at PropertyFinder, Bayut, and the aggregator API that combines them.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Datasets vs live APIs: which one do you need?</title>
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      <description>Bulk snapshots and live request-time data solve different problems. A decision framework for picking the right one — or both.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A buyer&apos;s guide to RapidAPI data products</title>
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      <description>How to evaluate paid APIs on RapidAPI without burning a week on trial subscriptions. The four questions that actually matter.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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