Turning a PDF into Markdown sounds simple until you try it on a real document. The text comes out fine. Then the tables collapse into mush, the formulas turn to gibberish, the figures vanish, and a two-column research paper reads in the wrong order. Markdown is how documents get fed to AI tools, pasted into notes, and stored in wikis, so "mostly right" usually isn't good enough.
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Where this fits: This article extends the Zero-Glue series. If you haven't read The End of Glue Code: Why MCP Is the USB-C Moment for AI Systems, the USB-C analogy below will make more sense with that context. But you can start here.
The USB-C analogy for MCP is useful...
If your product touches users in Indonesia, the country's Personal Data Protection Law — UU PDP, Law 27/2022 — is now fully in force. The two-year transition ended in October 2024, and the law is extraterritorial: it applies to you even if your company sits in Singapore, Australia or Berlin, as long as you process the data of people in Indonesia.
Most engineering teams ...
A plain-English walkthrough of my Claude Code workflow — written so anyone, including students, can understand what's happening and why.
AI coding assistants are fast. Dangerously fast.
They write code before they understand the problem. They touch files you didn't ask them to touch. They say "done!"...
The demo goes live in Tokyo. Dates are formatted as MM/DD/YYYY. Currency shows a dollar sign. One nav label reads “Einstellungen,” a German string left over from a previous sprint, jammed against a truncated button that was clearly designed for shorter English text. The Japanese enterprise prosp...
