What llms.txt is, and whether you need one
A proposed standard for telling AI models what your site contains. No major model reads it yet — here is the honest case for adding one anyway.
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A proposed standard for telling AI models what your site contains. No major model reads it yet — here is the honest case for adding one anyway.
Length beats complexity, and the rules most sites enforce actively make passwords worse. What the current guidance says and why it changed.
Why you can put a logo in the middle of a QR code, how much damage one survives, and the mistakes that make codes fail to scan.
PDF was designed so pages do not change. Editing one is always a workaround — here is which workaround suits which kind of file.
Two files that look identical on screen behave completely differently. One is text; the other is a photograph of text, and only one is findable.
Author names, software versions, edit timestamps and sometimes your full local file path travel inside every PDF you send.
Conversion rebuilds paragraphs by guessing, because a PDF has none. Here is what survives, what does not, and when to skip it entirely.
Table extraction fails quietly. The numbers arrive, the columns shift, and nothing warns you. Here is how to check before you trust the figures.
A web page has no pages. Converting one to PDF means deciding where to break it, and most of the damage happens at those breaks.
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