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- 01Free downloadGive Your AI Assistant Its First "Constitution" So It Stops Forgetting EverythingYour AI coding agent forgets everything between chats? A three-step method to build a rule file it reads automatically, a verification loop, and a lesson-routing system so it actually accumulates experience instead of starting from zero every time — includes a fresh-perspective self-review prompt.
- 02Free downloadLaunch a Website in One Evening Without Knowing DevOps: $0 Hosting on Astro + Cloudflare Pages, and the DNS Traps to AvoidHost a brand website for free with a static Astro site on Cloudflare Pages, auto-deployed on every git push. Step-by-step guide to the three DNS migration traps: leftover parking records from your old registrar, the hidden Pages entry point in the new Cloudflare UI, and the HTTP 200 false positive when checking Threads accounts.
- 03Post8 Traps When Wiring Up the Meta API (That the Docs Never Mention)A full field log of integrating Facebook Page, Instagram, and Threads publishing APIs in August 2026. Includes the Threads settings 404, the phantom pages_read_user_content scope, an empty /me/accounts response, and how each was actually fixed.
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View all posts →- 08/08/20268 Traps When Wiring Up the Meta API (That the Docs Never Mention)A full field log of integrating Facebook Page, Instagram, and Threads publishing APIs in August 2026. Includes the Threads settings 404, the phantom pages_read_user_content scope, an empty /me/accounts response, and how each was actually fixed.
- 07/03/2026Zero-Cost Knowledge Shorts: Wiring Up Motion Graphics, Voice Cloning, and Word-Level SubtitlesThe full local, zero-API-cost technical stack for channel-grade knowledge shorts: a React-based motion graphics engine, local zero-shot voice cloning, and word-level highlighted subtitles — plus the root cause behind desynced audio caused by uneven leading silence.
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View all resources →- AI Image & VideoMake AI Images Stop Looking Fake: Three Lighting StepsWhen an AI image looks fake, the skin usually isn't the problem; the light has no source and no direction. After 369 blind ratings, here are three prompt steps: name what the light comes from, state direction and edge, and cut haze and glow, plus fixes for night scenes and videos that brighten over time.
- Voice & Audio AICatching Dropped Words in AI Voiceover: Transcribe It Back and Diff Against the ScriptAI voiceover quietly skips words, and your ears rarely catch it. This note shows how to transcribe the audio with two speech-to-text tools, without giving them the script, diff word by word, and count a word as dropped only when both tools miss it. Then find the cause before rewriting anything.
- AI Image & VideoCamera Movement Prompts for AI Video: Stop the Locked-Off ShotIf your AI video camera is always eye-level and never moves, the prompt usually never told it how to move. This note shows how to write direction, speed and end frame for every shot, pick the stronger move first, avoid moves AI can't render, with blind-test and validation numbers.
- Voice & Audio AINo Sound Library: 12 Programmatic Sound Recipes and a Mixing StandardRain, thunder, footsteps, zither, temple bell and taiko, all synthesized with code and no licensing worries. Two raw ingredients, 12 sound recipes, a way to keep sound and picture permanently in sync, and a minimum mixing bar before delivery.
- Automation & AgentsLetting Two AI Tools Safely Share the Same Files: The Three-File Write-Lease ProtocolWhen several AI tools or people share the same files, the dangerous moment is two parties writing at once. A write-lease protocol you can build from three Markdown files: seven setup steps, four traps, and the rule to report only 'exists or not' when handling sensitive data.
- AI Image & VideoVertical Video (9:16) Mobile Layout Spec and Pre-Delivery ChecklistA vertical short that looks fine on a computer breaks on a phone: tiny subtitles, characters you cannot tell apart, blurry name tags, crowded channel names. The corrected sizes, positions and safe zones we tested, plus a color rule for multi-character dialogue and a nine-point phone check.
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