DRY Single Source for Degree Updates | Generated by AI
Good optimization — here’s why and a post you can copy:
The problem: The associate degree progress (passed/pending exams) was duplicated in two files — resume-en.md and associate-degree-en.md. Every time you passed an exam, you had to update both. Inevitably they’d drift.
The fix: Resume is now the single source of truth. The associate degree post links to it via a clean anchor #edu-gdufs, so readers jump straight to the GDUFS entry. One update, both pages stay in sync.
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I just deduplicated my associate degree progress across my site. Previously, the exam status (13 written passed, 3 practical passed, 5 + 2 pending) was copy-pasted between my resume page and the associate degree progress post. Every exam result meant double edits and drift risk.
Now the resume (resume-en.md) is the single source of truth — all detailed progress lives in its Educational Background section under a clean anchor #edu-gdufs. The progress post links there with one line:
See Educational Background → GDUFS for the current exam status.
One update, both pages stay in sync. Classic DRY for a personal site.