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A style guide is just text.

I wanted shellcheck to catch a class of mistakes it wasn’t designed to catch — conventions specific to my bash style.

A practical guide to threat modeling principles, extracted from Adam Shostack’s Threat Modeling: Designing for Security (2014).

A practical reference for writing use cases per Alistair Cockburn’s Writing Effective Use Cases (2001).

In June 2017, NIST published SP 800-63B Rev 3 and told the world to stop requiring periodic password changes.

A queue at 95% target load is mathematically stable.

Most readability advice resists mechanical checking.

Bash Style Guide Default-IFS bash is a field of footguns. for f in $files breaks on filenames with spaces; [[ $x == $y ]] accidentally glob-matches; defensive quoting becomes universal and obscures which expansions actually need protection.

You write something with AI.

A backend returns 200 OK with a JSON error body when downloads fail.