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Maintain Consistent Debugging Conventions

Maintain Consistent Debugging Conventions

Debugging is a critical part of our development process. We should maintain consistent debugging conventions across all our code.

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Workflow

Maintain a Scripting Pipeline

Maintain a Scripting Pipeline

Design modular pipelines to detect, clean, and report on markdown files—ensuring every content workflow is robust, maintainable, and auditable.

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Script Pipeline

Data Cleaning

Tidy Data

Markdown Processing

Node Scripts

Maintain a word-for-word dialog of our session

Maintain a word-for-word dialog of our session

Capture every word of your human-AI dialog for perfect transparency, reproducibility, and context-aware automation.

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Session Logs

LLM Chat History

Content Generation

Code Generators

Prompt Engineering

Context Windows

Version Control

Map of Dependencies

Map of Dependencies

Eliminate frustration by observing guidelines, working within hard rules and constraints, and learning to detect YAML irregularities that could cause bugs and failures.

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Workflow

YAML

YAML Handling

YAML Conventions

Bug Prevention

Use Safe Syntax in Mermaid Charts

Use Safe Syntax in Mermaid Charts

Assure your Mermaid Charts render by avoiding unsafe characters and syntax while writing technical documentation

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Workflow

Filesystem Observers

Remind a model to read documentation sources of included libraries

Remind a model to read documentation sources of included libraries

Give your AI Code Assistant the Aha! moment it needs to get through your blockers by learning directly from documentation sources.

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Memory Layers

Session Logs

LLM Chat History

Code Generators

Prompt Engineering

Context Windows

Best Practices

State Of The Art Practices

Change Role and Implement Prompt

Change Role and Implement Prompt

Seamlessly switch roles from product manager to developer and implement prompts with context awareness and precision.

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AI Human Workflows

Model Context Protocols

Context Windows

Maintain Consistent Reporting

Maintain Consistent Reporting

Master the art of consistent, auditable reporting for every automation, script, and observer in your content pipeline.

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Workflow

Reporting

Automation

Auditing

Meticulous Constraints for Every Prompt

Meticulous Constraints for Every Prompt

Master prompt engineering with essential, actionable constraints—ensuring every code generation task is robust, DRY, and error-resilient.

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Prompt Engineering

Code Standards

Best Practices

Error Handling

Maintain Consistent Reporting Templates

Maintain Consistent Reporting Templates

Build trust and clarity with consistent, reusable reporting templates that make every audit, fix, and automation step transparent and repeatable.

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Michael Staton

Workflow

Maintain an Environment-based Build System

Maintain an Environment-based Build System

Build across environments, including different deployments, using environment variables and configuration files.

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Michael Staton

Build Systems

Configuration

Maintain Robust Commenting in our Flavor

Maintain Robust Commenting in our Flavor

Unlock the power of readable, maintainable code with our signature commenting style—section openers, function docs, and clarity-first annotation for every project.

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Code Style

Documentation

Code Comments

Readability

Read the relevant documentation before guessing.

Read the relevant documentation before guessing.

Illuminate your coding journey by diving into relevant documentation, and transform assumptions into accurate, well-informed decisions.

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Michael Staton

Prompt Engineering

Code Standards

Best Practices

The Simplified Observer Logic

The Simplified Observer Logic

Clarify and streamline the Observer’s orchestration logic—ensuring every subsystem, expectation, and write operation is perfectly sequenced.

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Michael Staton

Workflow

Filesystem Observers

Fire up the Observer

Fire up the Observer

Ready to automate? Learn how to launch the Observer system for seamless citation and frontmatter processing across your content library.

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Data Integrity

File Processing

Observer System

Ways We Avoid Hard Validation

Ways We Avoid Hard Validation

Prevent build failures and gracefully handle frontmatter inconsistencies.

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Data Integrity

Content Rendering

Content Collections

Map of Relevant Paths

Map of Relevant Paths

Review this file to ensure code generation is using the correct paths and directory structure in this complex monorepo.

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Code Style

Software Architecture

Code Generators

Bug Prevention

An Exhaustive list of content YAML patterns.

An Exhaustive list of content YAML patterns.

Never repeat yourself—reference this comprehensive guide to all frontmatter YAML patterns for bulletproof data integrity and automation.

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Michael Staton

Workflow

YAML Handling

YAML Conventions

Bug Prevention

Filesystem Observers

Create a permanent memory for project YAML conventions

Create a permanent memory for project YAML conventions

Eliminate frustration by observing guidelines, working within hard rules and constraints, and learning to detect YAML irregularties that could cause bugs and failures.

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Michael Staton

Workflow

YAML

YAML Handling

YAML Conventions

Bug Prevention

Comprehensive Rules to tame Code Generator LLMs

Comprehensive Rules to tame Code Generator LLMs

A comprehensive, click-worthy guide to every YAML property and value syntax nuance you need to master for robust automation and content integrity.

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Michael Staton

Workflow Management

Client Updates

Platform Mechanisms

Workspace Configurations

Comprehensive Rules to tame Code Generator LLMs

Comprehensive Rules to tame Code Generator LLMs

Unlock the secrets to taming LLM code generators with a masterclass in rules, conventions, and practical strategies for bulletproof automation.

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Michael Staton

Code Generators

Context Windows

Model Context Protocols

Extending Markdown with Obsidian FlavoredSyntax

Extending Markdown with Obsidian FlavoredSyntax

Discover how to supercharge your Markdown with Obsidian's advanced syntax, templates, and automation tricks for next-level note-taking and productivity.

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Michael Staton

Workflow Management

Client Updates

Platform Mechanisms

Workspace Configurations