Adapter pattern
Translate one interface into another interface a client expects without changing the underlying meaning.
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The workshop
Concepts & principles
The shared vocabulary and architectural judgment beneath the workshop.
Build
The phase of turning an approved model into working, inspectable expressions.
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Builder sovereignty
Practical ownership of knowledge, tools, and decisions, including the ability to inspect and leave a system.
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Code Generation Contract
The semantic contract guiding how Hugo Web’s five-pillar site is designed, generated, reviewed, and delivered.
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Design
The phase of choosing intent, outcomes, and constraints before committing to implementation.
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Developer’s Notebook
A place for technical investigation, implementation mechanisms, reproducible questions, and architectural judgment.
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Domain-Driven Design
An approach to software design that develops a shared domain language and models within explicit boundaries.
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Evidence and revision
Use observed results to correct the model while distinguishing measurement, interpretation, and uncertainty.
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Expression
An outward artifact of structured meaning; on this site every published expression also has its own canonical node.
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Frontier models
A time-sensitive category for highly capable AI models, evaluated by task, evidence, operational constraints, and risk rather than a permanent ranking.
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Gang of Four design patterns
A catalog of recurring object-oriented design solutions described by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides.
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Human agency
The builder’s retained ability to set intent, judge evidence, choose actions, and accept responsibility.
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Knowledge graph
A model of identified things connected by explicit relationships under a shared vocabulary.
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Model
The phase of making important distinctions, intrinsic facts, and relationships explicit.
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Ontology
The small controlled vocabulary that governs node types, kinds, relationship predicates, and explicit contracts.
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Ports and adapters
Separate application policy from external mechanisms through explicit interaction boundaries.
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Retrieval-augmented generation
Supply retrieved source material as context for generation, then evaluate the result against that evidence.
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Semantic node
A stable, structured representation of one meaningful thing in the modeled world.
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Ship
The phase of placing approved expressions into reality and learning from their use.
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Simplest-capable architecture
Prefer the least complexity that genuinely satisfies the whole system’s requirements.
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Single Responsibility Principle
A module should have one coherent reason to change, understood in relation to the actors or policies it serves.
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SOLID
Five object-oriented design principles concerned with responsibility, extensibility, substitutability, interface focus, and dependency direction.
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Static-first publishing
Precompute publishable information when freshness and interaction requirements permit, adding runtime work only where it creates value.
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Strategy pattern
Encapsulate interchangeable algorithms behind a shared behavioral contract when variation is a real requirement.
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