Also carries scripts/og-gen/sync_prompts_catalog.py, the check that keeps the
repo's art inputs (metaphors.json, captions/, prompts_catalog.json) in sync with
the authoring tool dir after any metaphor change.
Every post now carries one unique local-ComfyUI/Ideogram 4 base frame, composited
into EN + ZH share cards, a banner and list thumbs.
- the shipped prompts_catalog held only 21 distinct metaphors for 72 posts (16
shared one visual), so all 72 were rewritten as unique object+state metaphors
and 10 frames re-rolled after OCR found pseudo-text rendered at legible size
- render_from_art.mjs emits JPEG by default (558 KB PNG -> 84 KB mozjpeg q85);
the ZH 1200x630 card did not exist before this batch
- 288 frontmatter fields migrated; the 144 v1 PNGs are gone
- PostList's thumb helper keys off the base slug (a ZH card is zh-<slug>.jpg while
the thumb is <slug>-800.webp, which 404'd the whole ZH listing)
- [...slug].astro's <picture> regex accepts .jpg
- the repo now carries the art inputs (metaphors.json, captions/<slug>.json,
refreshed prompts_catalog.json) so a frame is reproducible from git alone
The owner is continuing the artwork batch in a new session with a GPU window,
so the resume kit now exists in the repo instead of in this session.
- New §2 "Phase F — Artwork rollout" placed ABOVE Phase E and flagged as the
NEXT task, with Step B6b: what is already committed (render_from_art.mjs,
template-v2.2, prompts_catalog.json), the measured state (2 of 72 base frames,
2 of 72 evidence lines, live site still v1), the three open consultant
questions with proposed defaults, and the format decision with its numbers
(558 KB PNG vs 84 KB mozjpeg q85, x144).
- Calls out the two migration traps that make a half-done batch break the site:
ogImage on 144 frontmatter files, and PostList.astro's thumb helper regex.
- Documents the order of work, the reproducibility proof (byte-identical
banner/thumb on the two sample slugs, four sha256s), the measurement method
for card layout, and the two known gaps (OCR pseudo-text gate missing,
evidence lines unwritten).
- §4b gains today's measured values: bento live on both homepages, light-theme
contrast fixed, post live at 250 sitemap URLs, cron facts (dev.to 2/70,
LinkedIn 5 published).
The commit-churn post the owner read and approved today, published in the
first-person voice he asked for.
- Voice rewrite before publishing: the draft opened on "when managers or
recruiters ask how productive an engineer is" and addressed the reader in the
second person throughout (you/your 12 -> 2, both in the CTA; ZH 你 5 -> 2).
It now reads as a log entry: "Last week I did something I almost never bother
to do: I counted my own commits." Headings moved from essay titles to actions.
Numbers, the 5-repo table and every claim are unchanged.
- Title changed at the owner's request:
"Why 500,000 Lines of Commit Churn Only Left 230,000 Lines in Production"
-> "I Committed 518,000 Lines in 30 Days. Production Kept 235,000."
(ZH: 30 天提交 51.8 万行，生产环境只留下 23.5 万行), pubDate 2026-10-18.
- Fixed two real defects found while making the card: the draft claimed "four
automated gates" and listed three; and og-gen split titles at the word-count
midpoint, breaking at "…Lines in / 30 Days" — the splitter now prefers a
sentence boundary near the middle and falls back to the midpoint.
- og PNG regenerated for the new title, thumbs and banner WebP re-derived.
Measured: card 2 title lines, overflowY 0, measure_og_banner PASS (tags 1 row,
banner delta 2), build clean, /posts/ monotonic with this post on top.
Also queued the post at the head of the dev.to drip (queue 69 -> 70).
Measured against the live site and the cron outputs today, not carried over:
- A1 (author photo) and A3 (featured strip) were still ⬜ although both shipped
(B4 and 6e9d58b) — marked done with the evidence, /start-here left as a
deliberate deferral.
- E3 is fully automated: the LinkedIn half was already a daily no_agent cron
(id 35f8985f609a). 5 posts published as of today's 12:30 tick; its silence is
not proof of work, so the output files are the record.
- E6 closed: HSTS waived by the owner ("无视吧"), re-measured still max-age=0.
Do not re-open.
- E1: CF Web Analytics re-measured absent (0 cloudflareinsights hits, one Umami
tag). It is an owner dashboard action — no token here can enable it and CF
injects the beacon itself, so there is no repo change to make.
- B6 now states the real shape of the artwork work: 0 of 72 posts rolled out,
the live site still serves the v1 images, the 3 consultant questions are
unanswered, the rendered OG card is measured at 558 KB PNG vs 84 KB JPEG q85,
and the promised OCR pseudo-text gate does not exist yet.
- Homepage (EN + ZH) featured section becomes a 2x2 Cyber-Bento grid: OG
thumbnail at 65%/140px behind a scrim, category badge + metric pill,
3-line-clamped description, arrow CTA; 1 column under 680px.
- Bento scrim/pill/dot now use theme tokens (--card-veil, --pill-bg,
--bento-visual-opacity). The original hardcoded dark blend measured
1.96:1 pill contrast on the light theme; now 6.56 dark / 6.10 light.
- Add the missing @keyframes bento-pulse (the doc claimed a pulsing dot,
none existed), disabled under prefers-reduced-motion.
- Tag chips: mono face, hairline border, 4px radius; dashed border for
non-link tags.
- ZH pages: brand links /zh/, in-post category tag links
/zh/categories/<cat>/ instead of the EN route.
- project-state: B6 shipped note with measured readings; correct the
prompts-catalog path claim (file is outside the repo).
Measured in headless Chrome at 1280px and 390px, EN + ZH: 4 cards,
2 cols / 1 col, scrollWidth-clientWidth 0, no card overflow, all four
-800.webp thumbs loaded at 800x420.
Found a real bug while verifying the nav search: /pagefind/pagefind.js is an ES
module that defines no window.Pagefind, but Search.astro loaded it with a classic
<script src> and read window.Pagefind — so every query answered "Search is
unavailable." (confirmed live before the fix). Now a dynamic import; the specifier
must be a variable or Rollup resolves it at build time and the build fails.
Measured before/after in a real browser:
- archive /posts/ + /zh/posts/: 18,220px -> 3,788px (71 rows at 44px, grouped by
year) with a client-side filter (title/tags/description text, category chips,
14 tag chips, zero requests). Tested: "nginx" -> 6 rows, chip devops -> 28.
- tag pages for tags with >= 3 posts. Measured 235 distinct tags (an earlier brief
claimed 74), 156 used exactly once — pages only where a topic exists: 40 tags ->
80 pages, build 165 -> 245 pages. Pills link only when a page exists.
- homepage + ZH homepage: hero (288px) with the real scale claim, three CTAs, a
fixed Featured 4 (scale -> automation -> observability -> a delivered result),
Latest 10 -> 6. ZH hero had linked "关于我" to the English /about/.
- long code blocks collapse above 420px with an Expand button + gradient, copy
button still copies the whole block (verified on the 1010px block).
- search is visible ("⌕ Search /" pill, "/" plus the existing Ctrl/Cmd+K) and the
zero-result screen offers topic chips instead of a dead end.
Docs: project-state B3 entry, ops-runbook Pagefind gotcha.
All items measured before/after with curl, on the origin and through Cloudflare:
- /posts/zh/ answered 403 (directory with no index) -> nginx 301 to the new archive
- /zh/posts/ 404'd -> new src/pages/zh/posts/index.astro (build 163 -> 165 pages)
- ZH nav pointed "关于" at /zh/ and "文章" at /zh/ -> /zh/about/ and /zh/posts/
- og:locale was "en" on every Chinese page -> zh_CN, plus og:locale:alternate on
both languages (EN pages now advertise zh_CN as well)
- hreflang "zh" -> "zh-Hans"; <html lang> on ZH pages -> zh-Hans
- no 404 page existed -> src/pages/404.astro, served by nginx with a 404 status so
crawlers skip it, offering search + archive + the 3 newest posts
- JSON-LD Person gained worksFor (Hoelee Enterprise); image still omitted until the
author photo exists rather than pointing at a placeholder
nginx: config moved from the stock image file to a host bind mount
(/mnt/user/docker/nginx-hoelee-blog/conf.d/default.conf, Portainer stack 247 on
endpoint 3), validated with nginx -t in a throwaway container before the redeploy.
It also sets /_astro/* to immutable 1-year (hashed names) and HTML to
must-revalidate; unhashed /og/*.png and /banners/*.png keep the default TTL on
purpose. Note: the public HSTS and 16-day asset TTL come from Cloudflare zone
settings, not from this nginx.
Docs: ops-runbook.md (the nginx layer + why each rule), project-state.md (B2 entry
and the two open Cloudflare items my token cannot write).
Measured before/after with headless Chrome + CDP (not by eye):
- article banner: <picture> WebP q78 with the PNG as fallback, because the PNG
must stay for og:image (social scrapers do not reliably render WebP cards).
70 banners: 6.02 MB -> 2.52 MB (42%). JPEG measured *larger* than PNG here
(q85 = 129%) — the art is flat terminal-style with sharp text edges.
- post page related cards: dropped four 1200x630 PNGs (183 KB) to display
526x276 where the embedded code is illegible; now text-only cards with a
category badge, date and reading time.
- list thumbnails (home + archive): new /og/thumb/<name>-{400,800}.webp served
via srcset/sizes. Rows display at ~398px but were pulling full 1200x630 PNGs.
Homepage thumbnails ~450 KB -> 62 KB; archive (71 rows) ~3.2 MB -> 436 KB.
- desktop banner capped at 720px centred: 67% -> 45% of a 900px viewport,
keeping the art intact instead of cropping it.
Post page totals: images 277 KB -> 38 KB; page height 5758 -> 5065 (desktop)
and 9423 -> 8807 (mobile). Build: 163 pages.
Script: scripts/optimize-images.py; policy: docs/design-guide.md §3; runbook
step added to docs/ops-runbook.md.
Re-checked the Sept research against the live site and the repo:
- 53 posts x 2 languages, 127 sitemap URLs, 133/133 internal links 200
- Mark C1 (per-post OG), D1 (search), B2b (draft bank) as done — they were stale as open
- New Phase E (top of the queue): E1 analytics (CF Web Analytics + GSC), E2 main-site ->
blog link (deferred to the www.hoelee.com overhaul), E3 dev.to syndication, E4 ZH nav +
/zh/posts/, E5 og:locale, E6 Cloudflare HTML caching, E7 volume guardrail, E8 hygiene
- New section 4: measured evidence table; conventions section renumbered
Five posts with custom OG + banner and hire CTAs. Three are web3, giving
that category its first posts — /categories/web3/ previously 404'd while the
index advertised it as '0 posts - coming soon'.
Backdated where the work genuinely is older: the foundry-nft and
hardhat-smartcontract-lottery commits date to 2024-08-15..19, so those two
posts fill the empty 2024-10 and 2024-12 archive months with updatedDate
holding the real date. The two 2026-08-19 posts use their real work date.
TERMINALS/BANNERS entries for all five slugs are committed this time (both
generators were clean; diffs verified purely additive).
Backdated into the 2026-03-25 -> 2026-09-04 archive gap (pubDate 2026-04-14/05-17/06-24/07-29)
with updatedDate 2026-09-29 holding the real date, so sitemap lastmod stays honest.
Custom OG + banner per post, hire CTA, language switch verified.
- docker/Chrome/CDP gotcha: the container kills the browser, so it never exits
cleanly and no restore mechanism fires (flag, Preferences, managed policy all
verified failing) -> 60s snapshot + replay keeper
- also covers the stale Singleton* lock and custom-cont-init.d permission traps
- custom OG + banner art, EN + ZH, backlog B2 updated
Two finished posts written from the numerology-report migration work, kept as
draft: true so they build no pages and appear in no listing until published.
Content bank for weeks when there is nothing fresh to write.
- migrating-codeigniter-iis-to-openlitespeed (engineering)
IIS -> OpenLiteSpeed/CyberPanel. The two fatals that only appeared once the
authentik SSO gate was gone, the docroot public/ separation, and the
loopback self-call that becomes a real outbound HTTPS request on LiteSpeed.
- upgrading-codeigniter-46-to-47 (notes)
The two fatal config properties NOT in the official upgrade guide
(permittedURIChars, jsonEncodeDepth), why Composer never merges app/Config,
and the property-diff script that finds the whole class of problem at once.
Both fill the starved engineering (1 post) and notes categories. project-state.md
records them as Step B2b with the publish checklist.
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