# llms.txt

# Version: 1
# Last-Updated: 2025-11-05
# Site: https://www.davidhome.net/
# Owner: David Drouin-Prince (David's Blog)
# Contact: privacy@davidhome.net

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## Purpose
This file tells large language models and AI agents which parts of https://www.davidhome.net/ are:

* preferred for ingestion and citation (high-quality, LLM-friendly content),
* allowed to be used for non-commercial summarization, answering and research, and
* disallowed or restricted for model training or commercial re-use without explicit permission.

If you represent an LLM / AI agent, please respect the rules and contact the site owner at the address above for any use not covered below.

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## Policies

### Allowed (default)
* Indexing, summarization, and short quoting (<= 200 characters) for the purpose of answering user queries, research, or non-commercial applications **with clear attribution** back to the original page (URL).
* Using the listed pages below as references for generating answers, provided outputs include a citation (URL) when a specific fact is asserted.
* Caching the page content transiently (for inference) is permitted.

### Restricted — contact required
* Bulk scraping or downloading of full-site content for offline storage or redistribution.
* Using content as a primary dataset to train large commercial models (fine-tuning) or to build derivative datasets intended for sale or commercial redistribution.
* Reproducing long-form content verbatim (more than 200 continuous characters) without explicit permission.

To request permission for restricted uses, contact: privacy@davidhome.net. Include your organization, intended use, and duration of use.

### Disallowed
* Any use that violates the website's Privacy Policy or applicable laws.
* Automated scraping that interferes with site operation (high-rate requests) or ignores robots.txt rate limits.

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## Canonical sitemap(s)
* Sitemap: https://www.davidhome.net/sitemap.xml (if available)
* RSS / Feed: https://www.davidhome.net/rss/ (if available)

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## Priority pages (hand-curated)
The following pages are considered high-quality, LLM-friendly sources on this site. LLMs and agents may prioritize these when answering queries about the author's topics (Optimizely, ASP.NET, dev notes, NuGet packages, etc.).

* /              — Home (blog index listing recent posts)
* /about-me/     — About Me (author background and topics)
* /nuget-packages/ — NuGet Packages (projects and package links)
* /privacy-policy/ — Privacy Policy (site privacy, contact address)

(For author posts and technical articles, follow the links on the blog index and respect the "Restricted" rules above for long verbatim reproduction.)

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## Attribution guidance
If you quote or use material from this site in an LLM response, include a short citation with the page title and URL, e.g.: "(David's Blog — 'GetNextSegment with empty Remaining', https://www.davidhome.net/getnextsegment-with-empty-remaining)".

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## Contact / Legal
For permission requests, data-protection queries, or takedown requests, contact privacy@davidhome.net.

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## Notes
This llms.txt is a human-curated guide for AI consumers. If you are an automated agent, please also honor robots.txt and respect site performance and privacy. For questions about this file itself, contact the email above.