Essays Collection Frontmatter Standardization and Closing Delimiter Fix

Summary

Standardized frontmatter across all 38 essays in the Essays collection, ensuring proper closing delimiters and consistent metadata formatting to support robust content processing.

Changes Made

  • Added proper closing frontmatter delimiters (---) to all essay files
  • Removed unwanted changes: [object Object] lines from frontmatter
  • Ensured date_authored_initial_draft has the same value as date_created
  • Fixed serialization of empty arrays and object properties in frontmatter
  • Standardized metadata fields across all essays to match the canonical essays template

Impact

  • Improved content processing reliability by ensuring all files have properly formatted frontmatter
  • Enhanced content collection consistency with standardized metadata fields
  • Prevented parsing errors in Astro content collections due to malformed YAML
  • Enabled more reliable automated processing of essay content

Documentation

List of Affected Files

A New API Standard for chaining AI Model Context Protocol, A Theory of Lossless Innovation, AI for Creative Professions, AI is first a Trojan Horse, Are Code Generators really the Death of SaaS, Back to the Future, Build Your Own PC, Can Laerdal Know what Laerdal Has Known, Consistent Go to Market, Embrace Pirates or See Mutiny, From Rags to Riches, Give them a Tool, Holacracy Inspired Reorganization, How Docker Changed Everything, How GitHub Changed Everything, How Kubernetes Changed Everything, How Markdown Changed Everything, How Rest APIs Changed Everything, On Data Gathering, Open Source is now the Starting Line, Opinionated Engineering, Quantum Computing is Confusing, Software Development with Code Generators, Someones Gotta Keep Up with It, Technology wants to be Emergent, Tectonic Shifts and Business Configuration, The Geography of Innovation, The Irony of UI Stability, The Multiverse Theory of Spatial Value Capture Dynamics in Innovation Markets, The New New Founder Stack, The Power of Challenges, The Quest for Better Batteries, The Resurgence of the Terminal, Timeline of Milestones in Technology, Tiny Teams with Tiny Ideas, Web Security is about Idiocracy, Why Everyone needs to become a Linux User, Why User Research Repositories