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The project's readme about "How it's made"[1] is interesting. The content of the Markdown repo is enjoyable to explore as an Obsidian vault[2].

I’d like to say that I wrote some clever site scraper and then algorithmically generated everything but the real answer is that it was mostly done by hand with a template for the pattern structure, the help of Obsidian’s auto-complete combined with a keyboard macro to convert (and correct) the links, and many dozens of hours typing, copy-pasting, and tweaking. I reference these patterns directly in my Obsidian vault. I began in 2020 but I didn’t work on it in earnest until November of 2023 with a final push in April of 2024.

The “master” version is my Obsidian vault. I have a custom Fish function (apl-copy) using rsync to copy from my vault to the Markdown repo that contains the patterns (and list of patterns), the README, and the LICENSE as markdown files.

[1] https://patternlanguage.cc/README#how-its-made

[2] https://github.com/zenodotus280/apl-md



I've since had to make some changes so that I can benefit from crowd-sourced errata! I'm pleased you've pulled it into Obsidian - that's where it really shines.




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