From f7e64cebe5288210cbd00a65c0db443eeafa1735 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathon Wright <jonny.wright225@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2026 16:54:53 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] capabilities: proof-points fill the tall tiles; headers
 rebalanced to the flagship weight

The hero and full-row tiles stretched to their grid height with nothing
between blurb and chips - reading as missing body. Adds a points field
rendered as accent-dashed proof lines (flagship gets four, observability
three), each grounded in the running estate. Category titles step up to
23px/700 with the flagship at 30px so the hierarchy holds.
---
 src/components/SkillGroup.astro | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 src/data/skills.ts              | 14 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/components/SkillGroup.astro b/src/components/SkillGroup.astro
index 1a61b00..55dca05 100644
--- a/src/components/SkillGroup.astro
+++ b/src/components/SkillGroup.astro
@@ -25,6 +25,13 @@ const spanClass =
   {group.flag && <p class="tile__flag mono">{group.flag}</p>}
   <h3 class="tile__title">{group.title}</h3>
   <p class="tile__blurb">{group.blurb}</p>
+  {group.points && (
+    <ul class="tile__points" role="list">
+      {group.points.map((point) => (
+        <li>{point}</li>
+      ))}
+    </ul>
+  )}
   <ul class="tile__chips mono" role="list">
     {group.items.map((item) => (
       <li class:list={["chip", group.span === "hero" && "chip--lit"]}>{item}</li>
@@ -97,12 +104,12 @@ const spanClass =
     position: relative;
     margin: 0;
     font-family: var(--font-display);
-    font-size: 19px;
-    font-weight: 600;
+    font-size: 23px;
+    font-weight: 700;
     color: var(--text-strong);
   }
   .tile--hero .tile__title {
-    font-size: 26px;
+    font-size: 30px;
   }
   .tile__blurb {
     position: relative;
@@ -118,6 +125,39 @@ const spanClass =
     max-width: 420px;
   }
 
+  .tile__points {
+    position: relative;
+    list-style: none;
+    display: flex;
+    flex-direction: column;
+    gap: 10px;
+    margin: 6px 0 0;
+    padding: 0;
+    font-size: 13.5px;
+    line-height: 1.55;
+    color: var(--text-dim);
+  }
+  .tile__points li {
+    padding-left: 18px;
+    position: relative;
+    text-wrap: pretty;
+  }
+  .tile__points li::before {
+    content: "";
+    position: absolute;
+    left: 0;
+    top: 0.55em;
+    width: 8px;
+    height: 2px;
+    background: linear-gradient(90deg, var(--accent), var(--accent-2));
+    border-radius: 1px;
+  }
+  .tile--hero .tile__points {
+    font-size: 14.5px;
+    gap: 12px;
+    max-width: 460px;
+  }
+
   .tile__chips {
     position: relative;
     list-style: none;
diff --git a/src/data/skills.ts b/src/data/skills.ts
index 733a1ab..5e3d352 100644
--- a/src/data/skills.ts
+++ b/src/data/skills.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ export type SkillGroup = {
   title: string;
   // Short framing line for the group.
   blurb: string;
+  /** Proof-point lines rendered between the blurb and the chips — fills the
+   *  tall tiles (hero / full) so the tile reads as substance, not whitespace. */
+  points?: string[];
   items: string[];
   /** Bento tile size — "hero" = 2×2 flagship · "wide" = 2×1 · "full" = whole row · default 1×1. */
   span?: "hero" | "wide" | "full";
@@ -20,6 +23,12 @@ export const skills: SkillGroup[] = [
     span: "hero",
     flag: "FLAGSHIP",
     blurb: "Serving vision and language models on real hardware at the edge.",
+    points: [
+      "Fail-closed computer vision on single-node OpenShift — probes that catch a silently dead model, not just a dead pod.",
+      "One GPU, two jobs — a single card time-sliced between LLM serving and video transcode, with neither noticing.",
+      "DeepStream analytics pipelines run as first-class Kubernetes workloads, not appliances.",
+      "Local models behind an OpenAI-compatible gateway — swap the backend, keep every client.",
+    ],
     items: [
       "NVIDIA GPU Operator",
       "GPU passthrough (ESXi, as code)",
@@ -89,6 +98,11 @@ export const skills: SkillGroup[] = [
     title: "Observability & Ops",
     span: "full",
     blurb: "Knowing the system is healthy — and the GPUs with it.",
+    points: [
+      "Fleet metrics by remote-write — every cluster ships to one Prometheus, GPUs included (DCGM / Intel Xe).",
+      "Alerts that reach a phone and mean it — tuned until silence means healthy, not unmonitored.",
+      "A backup is a rumour until a restore drill proves it — drills are scheduled, not aspirational.",
+    ],
     items: [
       "Prometheus",
       "Grafana",