Developer’s Notebook / reference

The developer’s field references

Official documentation, original design ideas, current AI model references, and selected community voices—all in one maintained directory.

Start with primary sources. Use community perspectives to ask better questions, then check the underlying documentation or evidence. Inclusion is not an endorsement, affiliation, or claim that a resource is correct in every context.

Model catalogs and service limits change. Check current provider documentation and record exact versions before comparing capabilities or making a production decision.

A directory that can grow

Resources are maintained in site/data/resources.yaml. Each entry records its title, URL, publisher, source class, format, and a short reason to use it. Add an entry under a relevant category, validate the data, and rebuild. External URLs are checked separately because network availability is not deterministic build input.

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All resources are listed below. External links open in the same tab.

Hugo & the plumbing

Start with the tools' own documentation and implementation.

official / documentation

Hugo documentation

Content, templates, assets, output formats, and the publishing pipeline.

Hugo

primary / source

Hugo source code

Inspect the actual implementation and pin a revision when investigating behavior.

Hugo contributors

community / discussion

Hugo community forum

Practical questions and worked solutions; verify answers against your version.

Hugo community

official / documentation

Go documentation

Language, tooling, packages, and a path into the language behind Hugo.

Go project

Source, collaboration & delivery

Understand each system's responsibility before connecting them.

reference / documentation

MDN Web Docs

Browser behavior, HTML semantics, CSS, and JavaScript reference material.

MDN contributors

official / tutorial

W3C accessibility tutorials

Practical guidance for accessible structure, navigation, forms, and interactions.

W3C Web Accessibility Initiative

Design principles & original ideas

Read the original context before reapplying a pattern to AI-assisted work.

commentary / essay

Bounded Context

A concise explanation of explicit model boundaries and their relationships.

Martin Fowler

primary / book

Design Patterns

The Gang of Four catalog of object-oriented patterns and their consequences; commercial book page.

Addison-Wesley / InformIT

primary / essay

Hexagonal architecture

The original ports-and-adapters framing for isolating application behavior.

Alistair Cockburn

AI models, context & evaluation

Current primary references, not a permanent ranking of model capability.

official / specification

Model Context Protocol

Protocol and integration guidance for connecting AI applications to external capabilities.

Model Context Protocol project

People, perspectives & video

Useful voices to learn from; commentary is not a substitute for primary evidence.

commentary / publication

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Practical experiments and analysis around LLMs, tools, and software development.

Simon Willison

commentary / video

Andrej Karpathy on YouTube

Technical explanations and educational material; follow individual videos back to their sources.

Andrej Karpathy

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