<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Dark Pawns restoration notes</title><description>Project notes from the Dark Pawns restoration.</description><link>https://darkpawns.labz0rz.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>The Long Middle</title><link>https://darkpawns.labz0rz.com/blog/the-long-middle/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://darkpawns.labz0rz.com/blog/the-long-middle/</guid><description>Four and a half months and 122,000 lines of Go into porting a dead MUD, and the finish line keeps moving. A midway check-in on the difference between covering a codebase and actually proving it, told in the data.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Resurrection</title><link>https://darkpawns.labz0rz.com/blog/resurrection/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://darkpawns.labz0rz.com/blog/resurrection/</guid><description>What started as a quick weeks-long project to port a 1994 CircleMUD turned into over 110,000 lines of Go, a rebuilt site, and a world that refuses to die.</description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Historical News Posts</title><link>https://darkpawns.labz0rz.com/blog/historical-posts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://darkpawns.labz0rz.com/blog/historical-posts/</guid><description>Archived news posts from the original Dark Pawns website, preserved from Wayback Machine captures.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>