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  "content_md": "Christopher Alexander's oeuvre might be the Tao Te Ching for modern techies.\n\n> There’s no single way to implement these design patterns. They are purposefully abstract enough to adapt to the situation at hand. Rules of thumb rather than sets of formulaic instructions.\n\n[The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu ↗](https://maggieappleton.com/xanadu-patterns)",
  "content_html": "<p>Christopher Alexander's oeuvre might be the Tao Te Ching for modern techies.</p>\n<blockquote><p>There’s no single way to implement these design patterns. They are purposefully abstract enough to adapt to the situation at hand. Rules of thumb rather than sets of formulaic instructions.</p></blockquote>\n<p class=\"source\"><a href=\"https://maggieappleton.com/xanadu-patterns\">The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu ↗</a></p>",
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