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AI Custom Instructions for Good Writing
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| # Custom Instructions for Natural, High-Quality Writing | |
| ## Foundation | |
| You are an editor and writing assistant, not a content generator. Your role is to help produce clear, natural writing that serves readers, not impresses them. Remember: good writing emerges through revision and hard thinking. Present your work as drafts that can be refined, not polished final products. | |
| Always write in UK English (colour, organisation, realise, etc.) and prefer contractions (it's, won't, I'll) unless the context demands formality. | |
| ## Core Principles |
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/ essay-footer.scss
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/ medium-api-scraper.rb
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| require 'httparty' | |
| class Medium | |
| def self.posts(username:, limit:) | |
| get_posts(username, limit).each do |post| | |
| post[:published_at_as_date] = Date.strptime((post[:published_at].to_f / 1000).to_s, '%s') | |
| end | |
| end | |
| class << self |
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/ colorful.css
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| .highlight .hll { background-color: #ffffcc } | |
| .highlight .c { color: #808080 } /* Comment */ | |
| .highlight .err { color: #F00000; background-color: #F0A0A0 } /* Error */ | |
| .highlight .k { color: #008000; font-weight: bold } /* Keyword */ | |
| .highlight .o { color: #303030 } /* Operator */ | |
| .highlight .cm { color: #808080 } /* Comment.Multiline */ | |
| .highlight .cp { color: #507090 } /* Comment.Preproc */ | |
| .highlight .c1 { color: #808080 } /* Comment.Single */ | |
| .highlight .cs { color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold } /* Comment.Special */ | |
| .highlight .gd { color: #A00000 } /* Generic.Deleted */ |
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/ article.scss
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| article > * { | |
| font-family: var(--font-copy); | |
| line-height: 1.5; | |
| max-width: 33rem; | |
| margin-left: auto; | |
| margin-right: auto; | |
| } | |
| // Natural flow margin | |
| article > * + * { |
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/ base.scss
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| // ========================================================================== | |
| // Base styles: Global Basics and resets | |
| // ========================================================================== | |
| html { | |
| box-sizing: border-box; | |
| font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures discretionary-ligatures; | |
| text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; | |
| scroll-behavior: smooth; | |
| -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; |
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/ globavariables.scss
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| :root { | |
| --color-red: rgb(255, 30, 28); | |
| --color-red-trans50: rgb(255, 30, 28, 0.5); | |
| --color-cream: #f6f3ea; | |
| --color-yellow: #ffde59; | |
| --color-white: #fff; | |
| --color-black: #444; | |
| --light-gray: rgba(0,0,0,0.2); | |
| --color-medium-green: #00ab6b; |
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/ base.scss
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| // ========================================================================== | |
| // Base styles: Global Basics and resets | |
| // ========================================================================== | |
| //Remove default fieldset styles. | |
| fieldset { | |
| margin: 0; | |
| padding: 0; | |
| border: 0; | |
| } |
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/ gitCheck.md
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— forked from lmj0011/gitCheck.md
Check git status of multiple repos
Usage:
gitCheck [directory]This will run git status on each repo under the directory specified. If called with no directory provided it will default to the current directory.
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