- Pin 1 & 2: Primary Flagship Applications (full-stack or backend, with live URLs and extensive READMEs) - Pin 3: Open-Source Contribution or Developer Utility (CLI tool, NPM package, GitHub Action) - Pin 4: Deep Technical Experiment (custom compiler, mini-database, or distributed key-value store) - Pin 5 & 6: Clean technical libraries or comprehensive project boilerplates
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