If you like history, action, and truth—read it. It’s not just a book. It’s war in your hands.
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CW: silly quake strogg lore
Now that everything is unlocked in Quake Champions, I have the opportunity to read up on all the lore scrolls I never picked up because I only played as the Hot Lizard Mom, and the biographical entries for Strogg and Peeker are hilarious.
The strogg guy was part of a skeleton crew left behind on Stroggos to keep the lights on since most everyone else slipgated to Earth to squeeze sweet, sweet stroyent from humans, and times were tough, stroyent had to be rationed, but lo! Humans reverse-engineered slipgate tech and counter-invaded!
Now food is dropping out of the sky, references are made to the beginning of Q2 where most of the initial strike force was wiped out by an EMP save for one lucky bastard who was now prowling the outer perimeter, and since this strogg is an infiltrator class, the Makron taps him to spy on the guy
Each field report from this strogg grows increasingly desperate. At first it's like haha look at this human, what a weak little fleshbag, but then subsequent entries are like holy fuck, this dude just wiped our entire jail security force, fuck fuck he's taking out our security grid, what the fuck
Makron, let me take this guy out, he's fucking our shit up, give me permission to take this guy out, he's wrecking everything, Makron, talk to me, he's ruining everything, he's moving so fast, how is he doing this, please let me kill this guy, I can kill him, just give me the order, I'll do it
Finally he's like fuck it, I'm just gonna do it, goes in, fucking fails, then wakes up and is like wait, this isn't Stroggos, where am I
It doesn't change anything about Q2, but when I replay it now I'm gonna think about how canonically there is a panicking spy who fucking dies trying to kill me
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I Stayed at Berlin’s Most Famous Luxury Hotel—These Were All the Standout Design Details
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New in Droidwatch reports: "Ask AI". An assistant that has read the whole report explains it in plain language: what the app does, why it got that verdict, what to block, what to do next. It cites the report's findings and answers in the language you ask in.
It never changes the verdict: that comes from the analysis engine. The APK is not sent to the model, only your question and the report content.
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Wildlife lovers, this Western Australia drive is calling your name 🦘🌿
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Mind spinning fast
Whirling dervish
In a white dress..."
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This book gives British troops credit that most histories skip. That alone makes it worth a read.
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Miss Bennet’s Dragon, by M Verant
I have never read anything like Miss Bennet’s Dragon before. It’s a Pride and Prejudice mashup, and I’ve never read one of those before either, mainly because I have taught and reread Jane Austen’s novels for over forty years and I am usually on Side Canon when it comes to literary texts. Is there anything wrong with inserting several new sub-plots into Pride and Prejudice, while making the original characters, setting, social and economic situation dance to this new, expanded tune? […]https://katemacdonald.net/2026/10/26/miss-bennets-dragon-by-m-verant/
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Ever wonder how one man's mindset built a tech empire? Read his words and find out.
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Goods and services the super El Niño could make more expensive – and why
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Police raids on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s royal properties were unlawful
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In this article
- What llms.txt is
- What the evidence says
- What actually decides whether AI can read you
- Structure is not the same as being worth citing
- What I would do, in order
We publish an llms.txt file on our own site. It is a short markdown file that describes Geology in two sentences and lists the pages we would most like a language model to read. I am not going to pretend it is doing much. When people ask me whether they need one, my answer is "sure, if you have ten minutes, but please fix three other things first."
"llms.txt" is searched about 5,400 times a month in the US, and plugins now generate the file in one click. Here is what it is, what the evidence says, and what I would check before you spend any more time on it.
What llms.txt Is
llms.txt is a proposed convention, documented at llmstxt.org: a plain markdown file at /llms.txt with a short description of the site and a curated list of links, sometimes with a fuller /llms-full.txt holding the content itself. It is not a standard from any search engine or AI company, and it does not grant or block access to anything. That job still belongs to robots.txt.
What the evidence says
In June 2025 Google's John Mueller wrote on Bluesky: "FWIW no AI system currently uses llms.txt." He added that consumer chatbots fetch pages for training and grounding, "but none of them fetch the llms.txt file," which he said is obvious from server logs (Search Engine Roundtable).You can check this on your own site in a few minutes. Search your access logs for requests to /llms.txt and note which user agents made them. If the only visitors are SEO tools and curious developers, you have your answer.
None of that makes the file harmful. It is cheap to publish, and some developer tools and coding assistants do read documentation in this format, so for a software company with public docs it can be a real convenience. For most brands trying to be recommended in ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google's AI answers, it is simply not where the gains are.
What actually decides whether AI can read you
File or settingWhat it controlsWhy it matters more than llms.txtrobots.txtWhich crawlers may fetch which pathsA blocked AI crawler cannot read the page at allServer-rendered HTMLWhat a fetcher sees without running JavaScriptMany AI fetchers do not run JavaScriptXML sitemapWhich URLs exist and when they changedSearch engines that feed AI answers use it for discoveryPage status and canonicalsWhich version of a page countsBroken or conflicting signals keep pages out of indexes
We keep a list of the AI crawlers and what each one does in robots.txt for every AI crawler. The mistake we run into is rarely a missing llms.txt. It is a robots.txt rule (how to set one for AI crawlers), or a security or CDN setting, that blocks GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot or PerplexityBot without anyone having decided to.
Structure is not the same as being worth citing
A lot of the llms.txt enthusiasm comes from a broader belief that tidy, machine-friendly structure is what gets a page cited. We tested a closely related claim. In our study of 3,352 AI citations across B2B SaaS buying queries, schema markup showed almost no relationship with how often a page was cited (r = 0.103), and pages with FAQ blocks were cited slightly less often than pages without them. What did line up with citations was depth of coverage and outbound links to good sources (GEO for B2B SaaS).Structure helps machines parse a page. It does not make the page worth quoting.
What I would do, in order
- Check robots.txt for AI crawler rules nobody chose. Our free robots.txt tester shows them crawler by crawler.
- Fetch your key pages without JavaScript and confirm that prices, product names and your main claims are in the HTML.
- Keep the sitemap current (our free sitemap checker flags broken entries) and submitted in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. Bing's index has long been one of the sources behind ChatGPT's web search, and it is the one most teams forget.
- Make the pages worth citing: cover the buyer's question completely, put the facts early, and link your sources.
- Then, if you like, add llms.txt. Ours took a few lines. Just do not report it as an AI visibility win until your logs show something reading it. If llms.txt becomes a real standard, the sites that did steps one to four will benefit from it most anyway.
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We often confuse knowing something with truly understanding it.
You can read a book, complete an online course, or watch dozens of tutorials and still struggle when you face a real situation. The information may be familiar, but applying it under real conditions is a different skill.
That is where experience comes in.
What Is Experience?
Experience is what you learn by doing something, facing a situation, and reflecting on the outcome.It does not come only from success. Mistakes, unexpected problems, difficult decisions, and even failures can teach us valuable lessons.
But experience is not simply about how much time you spend doing something. It is about how much you learn from that time.
Two people can spend five years doing the same job and develop completely different levels of understanding. One may repeat the same process without questioning it. The other may continuously evaluate decisions, learn from mistakes, and improve their approach.
Time creates opportunities for experience. Reflection turns those opportunities into learning.
How Is Experience Built?
Experience develops through several interconnected processes.1. Repetition
Doing something repeatedly helps you recognize patterns and become more comfortable with familiar situations.For example, writing JavaScript regularly can help you recognize common errors, understand language behavior, and solve familiar problems more efficiently.
However, repetition alone is not enough. Repeating the same mistake without understanding it does not necessarily make you better.
2. Making Mistakes
Mistakes reveal gaps between what you believe and what actually happens.When something goes wrong, you have an opportunity to examine your assumptions, understand the cause, and adjust your approach.
In software development, fixing a bug is useful. Understanding why it happened, why your original approach failed, and how to prevent similar issues is even more valuable.
The real lesson is not always the solution itself. Sometimes, it is the reasoning that led you to the solution.
3. Facing Different Situations
Familiar situations teach you how to handle familiar problems. New situations challenge you to adapt.Working with different technologies, collaborating with different people, or dealing with limited resources forces you to reconsider what you already know.
Over time, you begin to understand not only what works, but also when it works and when it does not.
4. Making Decisions Under Uncertainty
Experience becomes especially valuable when you do not have all the information you need.In theory, problems often have clearly defined conditions. In practice, requirements change, deadlines approach, resources are limited, and several solutions may appear reasonable.
Experience helps you evaluate trade-offs, recognize risks, and make informed decisions without expecting perfect certainty.
Why Does Experience Matter?
Experience changes how you approach problems.You recognize patterns faster. Previous situations help you identify familiar problems without starting your analysis from zero every time.
You make more informed decisions. You have a better understanding of the consequences, limitations, and trade-offs associated with different choices.
You respond more effectively to pressure. Familiarity with difficult situations can help you remain focused instead of reacting impulsively.
You turn knowledge into practical judgment. You learn that a technically correct solution is not always the most appropriate solution for the situation.
These benefits do not appear automatically with age or time. They develop when you actively learn from what you experience.
Theory vs. Experience
Theory and experience are not opposites. They serve different purposes, and both are necessary.Theory helps you understand concepts, principles, and possible approaches. Experience helps you apply that understanding in specific circumstances.
Consider two developers learning React.
One has completed a course and understands components, props, state, and hooks. Another has also worked on projects, debugged unexpected behavior, handled changing requirements, and evaluated different implementation approaches.
Both may understand React. But the second developer has had more opportunities to learn how those concepts behave in practice.
That does not mean the second developer is automatically better. The quality of their decisions, the complexity of their work, and their willingness to learn all matter.
The difference is that practical experience exposes you to problems that theory alone cannot fully reproduce.
Theory gives you a foundation. Experience helps you develop judgment.
Experience Is Not the Same as Never Making Mistakes
It is tempting to think that experienced people always know what to do.In reality, experience does not eliminate uncertainty or guarantee correct decisions. Experienced people still make mistakes, encounter unfamiliar problems, and sometimes need to reconsider their assumptions.
What often changes is how they respond.
Instead of immediately blaming someone or searching for the fastest workaround, they may investigate the underlying cause, compare possible solutions, and consider the long-term consequences.
Experience does not mean having every answer. It means becoming better at finding answers and learning when your current understanding is insufficient.
How to Get More Value From Your Experiences
You cannot control every situation you encounter, but you can control how deliberately you learn from it.Here is a simple process:
- Take action. Apply what you know instead of waiting until you feel completely ready.
- Observe the outcome. Compare what actually happened with what you expected.
- Analyze the difference. Identify the assumptions, decisions, or conditions that influenced the result.
- Extract a lesson. Determine what you would repeat or change next time.
- Apply what you learned. Use that lesson when a similar situation appears again.
This process works beyond programming. It applies to communication, relationships, learning, decision-making, and personal development.
The important part is not merely going through an experience. It is examining what that experience can teach you.
Final Thoughts
Books, courses, and theory can help you understand the world, but they cannot replace every lesson that comes from interacting with it.You need to try things, face unexpected outcomes, make decisions, and reconsider your approach when the results do not match your expectations.
And when something goes wrong, do not stop at asking, "How do I fix this?"
Also ask, "What can I learn from why this happened?"
Because knowledge tells you what is possible. Experience helps you understand what works, under which conditions, and why.
You do not gain experience simply by living through situations. You gain it by learning from them.#beginners #learning #career #productivity #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
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What a warning to read now about the crash of 1929.
And what a bright light to see what happened when the voters decided to vote for their own future instead of that of the rich.
It describes that the ultimate power is in the hands of the voters.
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It's really nice to convert some of my old bike blog posts from HTML to clean Markdown because I actually get to read posts about past adventures that I had forgotten about. Like this 200k cross-border shopping trip: https://ride-or-pie.netlify.app/2020/08/just-across-border
It does make me a little sad about sitting at home with a broken elbow rather than going on new adventures.
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Pressure System 🖤
You button every feeling beneath your skin...
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Jenna Ortega says Disney Channel media training ruined her boundaries with fans
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What Happened When I Tried TikTok’s Viral Pea Salad to ‘Fibermaxx’ My Lunch
6 min read Tik…
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How AI turned Britain into a nation of super-complainers
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I look forward to this each Sunday. Always an excellent read 👌
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Brilliant thread. Go read.*
* Actually, as I always say, I cannot force you to do anything as you are a creature of divine dignity, free to make your own choices in the world. But it IS a very fine thread, and I would consider it a good use of your free will if you deployed a touch of it to read the thread.
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AI coding agents are fast. They are also confidently wrong about code they read five minutes ago. An...#ai #claudecode #python #opensource #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
Your AI agents are building on code that changed. Neo catches it before the edit published: false
