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  hand-maintained. See docs/seo-strategy.md.

  Articles live in src/content/articles.ts, not a CMS — that list isn't
  synced here automatically, so add a /articles/:slug entry (both locales)
  by hand whenever a new article is published, the same way as the two
  ai-and-the-job-market entries below.

  Kurdish is temporarily hidden site-wide (no /ku entries, no ku hreflang
  alternates) — the translations exist and aren't going anywhere, but Hadi
  has no way to confirm their quality himself, so it's pulled until a
  native speaker reviews it. See LanguageSwitcher.tsx / i18n/index.tsx /
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  Individual /jobs/:id pages are NOT in the sitemap (removed Oct 2026): today's
  25 jobs are seed/showcase data (see auth-decision.md / seed-showcase-jobs.mjs),
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  the real pages. They are still prerendered and linked from /jobs, and have
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  scripts/prerender.mjs) once genuine client postings exist.
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