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Building a Modern Transit Website: Live Bus Tracking, a System Map, and a Stop Finder on Open Data

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Content Is an Overlay: Separating Words from Structure in an AI Document Editor

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Why We Moved Our Document Production into Web Code: The Origin of Replicator

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HTML as a Native Data Format for LLMs: Why We Encode Our Data in Markup Instead of JSON

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Anatomy of a WordPress Compromise: One Abandoned Plugin, Ten Months of Warnings

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