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    <description>News from making Caravita: what changed, why, and what is next.</description>
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      <title>Caravita is coming to her computer</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Windows, Mac and Linux, sold from this site. The pages are up; the builds are being finished.</description>
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      <title>The music no longer cuts out</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>On some phones the music went quiet for a few seconds in the middle of a game, then came back. It stays on now.</description>
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      <title>A card game app with no ads, no coins and no account</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Everything a grandmother says about the apps on her tablet, and what Caravita does instead of each one.</description>
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      <title>Eight names, in Latin and Italian</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Why the games have new names, and what each one means.</description>
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      <title>Straighten, a setting for the people who need it</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Every card in Caravita sits a little crooked, the way real cards do. One switch squares them all. It started as a joke; it stayed because it was right.</description>
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      <title>How to play cards with your grandma when you live in another city</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The Daily Challenge deals the same three games to everyone each morning. Play yours, then call her about hers.</description>
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      <title>Large text that stays on the screen</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Text size now goes to 150 percent, and every screen makes room for it instead of shrinking it back or cutting it off.</description>
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      <title>Card games for seniors with low vision, and what big cards really means</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>My Grandma is nearly blind. Here is what a card game has to do before she can read it, setting by setting.</description>
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      <title>No more dead ends, and every &quot;no&quot; said in words</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A game that cannot go on now says so, and tells you what it needs. Nothing goes silent on you, and nothing calls a win a loss.</description>
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      <title>A card game for Grandma, made by her granddaughter</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Why there is a card game for grandmothers at all, and what one has to get right before she will play it twice.</description>
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      <title>Your game is always waiting for you</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The phone rings, the battery dies, someone is at the door. When you come back, &quot;Keep playing it&quot; is there, and so is every card.</description>
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