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Artificial Productivity

How to use these tihngs.

Like most people, I have had success with splitting things into a planning stage followed by an implementation stage. The implementation phase can be kind of synchronous/interactive, or can be a fully auto Ralph loop.

1. The Plan

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CF + Images

Use a blurry placeholder for images. It's a little bit harder when the images are unknown in advance, so we generate the blurhash string at runtime, and use several caches for the HTML and blurhash string.

Blur-Up

We use the @substrate-system/blur-hash web component to do the blur-up technique.

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openssl rand -base64 32

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# Conformance suites: what they are, when they help, how to build one

A conformance suite is a third axis of testing — distinct from unit tests
and integration tests. Where unit tests prove that a function does what
its body says, and integration tests prove that subsystems compose, a
conformance suite proves that **what the public API claims it does
matches what it actually does, against an external ground truth**.

This document explains the pattern, when it earns its keep, and how to
set one up. The case study is ferrotorch (a pure-Rust PyTorch

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export const EN_DASH = '\u2013'
export const EM_DASH = '\u2014'
export const NBSP = '\u00A0'
export const ELLIPSIS = '\u2026'
export const COPYRIGHT = '\u00A9'
export const BULLET = '\u2022'
export const AMP = '\u0026'
export const LT = '\u003C'
export const LTE = '\u2264'
export const GT = '\u003E'

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ralph loop

With "reasoning" escalation.

Bash Script

#!/bin/bash
set -o pipefail  # catch CLI failures

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fonts

Small Caps

Alegreya Sans SC

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Verification-Driven Development (VDD)

Methodology: Iterative Adversarial Refinement

Overview

Verification-Driven Development (VDD) is a high-integrity software engineering framework designed to eliminate "code slop" and logic gaps through a generative adversarial loop. Unlike traditional development cycles that rely on passive code reviews, VDD utilizes a specialized multi-model orchestration where a Builder AI and an Adversarial AI are placed in a high-friction feedback loop, mediated by a human developer and a granular tracking system.

I. The VDD Toolchain

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CSS grid

See Look Ma, No Media Queries! Responsive Layouts Using CSS Grid

.post-list {
    grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(290px, 1fr));
}

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bash

rename

Change the file extension for all .js files in dir

for file in ./dir/*.js; do mv ${file} ${file/.js/.ts}; done