The inline SVG thumbs were placeholder-grade next to real art. Cards now use
a 640px mini of the same cover (9-22KB), object-fit cover with a slow hover
zoom, and a corner scrim so the DOSSIER tag stays legible over the brighter
frames. Falls back to the sketch for any project without a cover.
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.
Landscape phone (720-1000px band) put the parent grid at 2 columns while the
tile spans (hero span-2, full span-3) only reset at 720px. A span-3 tile in a
2-col grid forced a phantom 3rd column and collapsed the 1fr tracks to
58px 58px 760px, squishing the flagship card to ~132px off the visible area.
Move the span reset to the same 1000px breakpoint the grid drops to 2 columns:
now 446px 446px, hero full-width. Desktop 4-col + portrait 1-col unchanged.
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).
The links were display:none under 720px (desktop-only nav). Phones now wrap the bar: brand +
theme toggle row 1, the five tabs row 2 (mono 0.78rem, overflow-x scroll, hidden scrollbar).
Media block placed AFTER the base rules - same-specificity source order was eating the first attempt.
Astro scopes compound selectors, so [data-theme=light] .hero__scrim inside a component style
block could never match html[data-theme] - the light theme rendered dark scrims (embossed
low-contrast copy). Wrap the theme prefix in :global() in Hero, ProjectCard and the blog index.
Light 'blueprint' hero now reads clean.
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.
- Projects/Blog had no data-nav-id so the scroll-spy skipped them entirely;
point them at the homepage #projects/#writing sections so all five animate
- Drive the underline declaratively (re-assert all on each change) so none can
be left stranded mid-spring
- Slide follows scroll direction: activating underline grows from its trailing
edge while the rest collapse toward the leading edge (down→right, up→left)
- Add the secret-zero bootstrap-chain diagram (was a broken image ref)
- Remove the corner sparkle artifact from all six blog hero images
- Bump hero/diagram cache-bust params so the updated assets serve
Add an optional hero field to the blog schema; render it on the post page and
as the index card thumbnail. Ship 4 verified Nano Banana hero images (shipping/
init-gating/authentik/workload) as optimized webp (64-134KB). Publish the
secret-zero post. (outbound hero pending — its file was a dup of shipping;
secret-zero hero pending generation.)
Unify scroll reveals, hero entrance, nav active-underline, button springs,
the scroll-progress bar and backdrop parallax under one Motion system
(src/scripts/anim.ts), bundled into a self-hosted /_astro module so CSP
script-src 'self' holds. Progress bar + parallax now scroll()-driven and
cross-browser (was Chromium-only animation-timeline). Fail-open, reduced-motion
aware, content fully visible with JS off.
The hero name was a mostly---text gradient with a thin accent sweep; in light
mode it rested on low-contrast tones and the body text-halo washed it to a ghost.
Replace with a full cyan→violet→magenta fill driven by the theme-aware accent
tokens (deep on light, bright on dark) so it's unmissable in either mode, plus a
tight dark edge-shadow for legibility, the electric glow, and a one-shot light
sheen that parks off-screen. Opt the title out of the light text-halo.
Light mode: revert the heavy white-out scrim back to a moderate wash so the
board stays visible, and earn legibility with a soft light text-halo behind
running text instead (invisible on the solid cards, only works over the image).
Pairs with the darker light-mode text tokens.
Also append ?v=2 to every /diagrams/*.svg reference so the recoloured diagrams
bypass Cloudflare's 4h edge cache and show immediately (the SVG URLs aren't
content-hashed like the CSS bundle).
All JS moved to external /site.js → script-src 'self' with no inline JS,
hashes or eval. Full header set via nginx (CSP, nosniff, frame-deny,
referrer, permissions, COOP/CORP); HSTS stays at the CF edge. Shared
headers include avoids the location add_header reset footgun. Build-time
secret/inline-script/third-party scan gate. SECURITY.md documents posture.
Hand-authored inline-SVG Diagram component (no runtime JS, CSP-clean,
themeable) rendering edge-AI, IaC-fleet and homelab architectures on the
case studies. Staggered CSS hero entrance, motion-aware.
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