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<!--
  URL scheme — decided 2026-07-28, do NOT change after publication.
  GitHub Pages cannot do server-side redirects, so a permalink change later
  costs meta-refresh shim pages. Lock it now.

    homepage       https://www.kenstager.com/
    writing index  https://www.kenstager.com/writing/
    writing entry  https://www.kenstager.com/writing/<topic-slug>/
                   (directory + index.html — no file extension in the permalink,
                    survives a move off GitHub Pages; topic-based slug so a
                    title edit never forces a URL change)

  Append one <url> block per new page. <lastmod> is the DEPLOY DATE of that
  page's last content change (W3C YYYY-MM-DD). This is NOT the same field as
  the on-page "last.verified" claims-registry date — different semantics,
  do not sync them.

  Do NOT list: /Ken-Stager-Resume.pdf, /404.html, google*.html verification files.
  Do NOT add changefreq or priority — Google ignores both.
  Do NOT pre-list URLs that don't exist yet — 404s in a sitemap show as errors
  in the GSC Sitemaps report, which is a signal we're relying on.
-->
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.kenstager.com/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-07-28</lastmod>
  </url>
</urlset>
