The pale four-point star bottom-right in seven project covers and four blog
heroes is the image generator's watermark, not house style. Scrubbed via
delogo and verified numerically (peak luminance in the mark's box drops from
~100-255 to under 30 in every file); thumbnails regenerated from the cleaned
masters. The cover prompt file wrongly described the mark as part of the house
look and asked new generations to include one - corrected, with a reject-list
entry naming the mark and its usual position.
Adds mirror-registry as a featured project (order 26, beside The Exploded
Cluster) covering the zot deployment, the bootstrap and auth circular
dependencies, and the retention/revalidation behaviours that corrected the
first published write-up. Adds the cover: field to exploded-cluster (it had
none, so the card rendered imageless) and stages public/covers/image.md with
the generation prompts and processing steps for both covers.
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)
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.
Six generated covers wired in via an optional cover key - 2528x1696 sources
optimised to 1600px webp, 49-144KB each. They sit on the page background
rather than the diagrams' light card, since the art is already generated in
the site palette on near-black. Cover carries the story at a glance, the
diagram still carries the architecture below it.
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).
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.
- 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
outbound-only-exposure (corrected sealed-vault image) + secret-zero (the seed-
key circuit-tree, _R revision). Both verified against their prompts, optimized
to webp (17KB / ~120KB). Completes hero coverage for all 6 posts.
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 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.
The diagrams still used the old teal/green/blue scheme. Remap all six to the
electric theme: teal #0d9488 → cyan #0c8fce (primary), blue #3b6fb0 → violet
#7c3aed (containers/boundaries), green #2e8b57 → magenta #c026d3 (services).
Neutral slate + navy kept for lines and text; light card unchanged so the
fixed-colour art stays legible in both themes.
CSS animation-timeline: scroll() is Chromium-only, so the backdrop didn't move
for non-Chromium browsers. Replace it with a tiny rAF-throttled scroll handler
in site.js (the existing same-origin script — CSP stays strict, no inline JS)
that drives a --bg-shift CSS var off scroll position. The board now pans
vertically in lock-step with scroll and sits still at rest, in all browsers.
Least-privilege for Kubernetes workloads — own ServiceAccount + no auto-mounted
API token, then non-root + dropped caps, then Pod Security as the enforced floor.
Adds a matching house-style SVG diagram (workload-least-privilege).
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.
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