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Welcome to the Docs

This is the reference side of southpawriter, the part of the site where things are organized for finding rather than reading. If the blog is where ideas get explored, this is where they get pinned down.

What's Here​

The docs section is structured around a few core areas:

  • Glossary: Plain-language definitions for AI, retrieval, web standards, and .NET development terminology. Written by a technical writer, for people who work alongside developers and want to understand the landscape without wading through academic papers or marketing copy.

  • Projects: Overview documentation for the tools and research initiatives behind this site: LlmsTxtKit, DocStratum, FractalRecall, Lexichord, and Rune & Rust. Each project page covers what it does, who it's for, and how it fits into the broader picture. Detailed implementation docs live in each project's GitHub repository; these pages are the starting point.

How This Relates to the Blog​

Blog posts are chronological, opinionated, and narrative. They explore questions, tell stories, and take positions. Docs pages are evergreen, structured, and reference-oriented. They answer questions and get updated when the answers change.

A blog post might say "Here's what I found when I scanned 100 llms.txt files with DocStratum." The corresponding docs page would say "Here are the most common llms.txt validation errors and how to fix them." The blog post links to the docs page. The docs page doesn't need to be entertaining; it needs to be correct and findable.

Docs-First, Always​

Everything on this site starts as documentation. The projects, the research, even the blog posts: they all begin as specs, outlines, and structured plans before a single line of code gets written. This docs section is the natural home for that work once it matures past the planning stage.

If you're looking for the blog, it's over here. If you're looking for something specific and want to get in and out quickly, you're in the right place.