Three arc-opening posts, each with hero and diagram:
- probation-for-models (EDGE AI 01)
- one-value-many-enforcers (AUTOMATION 01)
- six-days-of-silence (OBSERVABILITY 01)
Drafted from the last month of real work - OpenShift fleet hardening, edge AI
and GPU, network policy enforcement, supply-chain security, automation and
observability - weighted toward the work stack the site advertises. Each has
a photo prompt in the house palette and a diagram brief.
Adds BLOG-LEDGER.md, generated from disk so it cannot drift, listing every
live and drafted idea in one place. Search it before drafting; claim the idea
when the folder is created rather than at publish, so two sessions cannot
collide. Expands the series from three arcs to six now the catalogue is deep
enough to split edge AI, automation and observability out of PLATFORM.
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.
Extends the lone security thread into three arcs that read as skill pillars -
SECURITY (6), NETWORKING (5), PLATFORM (7) - so every post carries a numbered
badge and the catalogue advertises three areas of depth rather than a loose
list. Adds the badge to the post detail header too, styled to match the cards.
Content: shipping-this-site + init-gating-gpu-readiness get their edited-workshop bodies (from the
NAS Published/ pass) - site frontmatter (hero/heroAlt) kept, only prose replaced.
Dossiers 004-006 (gpu-as-code, global-infra-modernisation, network-automation-fleet) were all
rendering the same generic pipeline thumbnail - added 3 tailored DossierThumb motifs (gpu die +
passthrough lanes, region globe, switch-fleet grid) via a new diagram: frontmatter field. Also
closed the dead-space gap above the tag row on short-argument cards with a faint on-theme grid
fill (::before, masked fade) instead of a flat void.
New post: broker-pattern ('An agent should never hold the key it's using') - SECURITY SERIES 02,
between secret-zero and workload-least-privilege. Hero de-watermarked from the NAS source (resized
to the calibrated 1600x1073 coordinate space, Jacobi-diffused out the Nano Banana sparkle at its
known center) via scripts/dewatermark-broker-pattern.mjs (reusable for the next 3 drafts). New
diagram/broker-pattern.svg in the house light-card palette. Inline top-of-body hero stripped per
the astro-static-site skill guard (frontmatter hero: is now the only render path).
02 Capabilities becomes a 4-col bento (Edge AI 2x2 flagship w/ magenta corner radial, Platform
wide, magenta-flavoured security tile, Observability row-completer) driven by span/flavor fields
in skills.ts. 03 Selected Work becomes dossier cards: house-style SVG thumbnails (per-project
motif via DossierThumb), DOSSIER/00N corner tags, 'the argument' line from the outcome field,
chip tags, mono meta footer. 04 Writing cards gain the security-series badge (data/series.ts)
and sit three across. Section numbers glow cyan; a circuit divider (gradient hairlines + two
diamonds) closes the hero. Footer opens with the GitOps receipt - git sha + build date baked at
build time via lib/build-info.ts, zero runtime calls.
Chakra Petch site-wide (300-700) + JetBrains Mono variable, all self-hosted (CSP zero-external
holds). Token layer gains the mock-exact text tiers, glass panel, cyan-tinted borders, glows,
tighter radii; light 'blueprint' variants included. New Constellation.astro: the six real nodes
as IC chips on dual-trace PCB paths (cyan out / magenta back, dasharray packets), radar ring on
the cave hub, vias at bends - pure SVG + scoped CSS keyframes, full reduced-motion fallback.
Hero rebuilt: scrim stack + masked grid over the board art, two-line gradient nameplate, typing
bar cycling six real fleet facts via the external site.js (facts from src/data/fleet.ts), scroll
indicator. Facts wrap, never clip.
The tab logo and social preview were still on the old teal palette. Retone both
to the electric cyan→magenta theme matching the hero nameplate:
- favicon.svg: jw monogram + prompt-line + cursor on a cyan→magenta gradient.
- og.png (gen-og.mjs): name in the cyan→violet→magenta hero gradient, cyan
eyebrow/separators, magenta URL, cyan→magenta top bar + dual corner glows.
- bump ?v=2 on both refs (public/ assets are CF-edge-cached + social platforms
cache OG hard) so the new art shows immediately.
Projects + blog as schema-validated content collections; structured case
studies (problem/design/outcome), blog with tag pages, reading time, RSS
feed (drafts excluded), sitemap, and Shiki dual-theme code highlighting.
Real career history (Woolworths, Virtus Health, Linde, ELGAS, Darktime),
cloud-heavy skills matrix, education, LinkedIn, Sydney location, and
projects mapped to actual work. OG subtitle now smaller italic serif.
jwright