499 post-mortem: an O(n) library audit inside a polled GET on a one-core
cgroup, three reverse-proxy hops, and the status no monitor watches.
- measured: 13.6 s idle / 17.7-98.5-35.8 s probes / 76-2507 s under load
- evidence triad: 7x 499 @ portal, zero app-log entries, in-container repro
- fix: 300 s TTL cache + single-flight refresh + refreshing/cached_at flags,
text-first client reader, ?refresh=1
- result: cached path 200 in 0.24-0.36 s (median 0.26 s)
- art: ideogram4 base frame + 4 derived targets, art-meta evidence line
- LinkedIn companion: docs/linkedin/batch-07-linkedin-posts.md
Adds EN + ZH post php2shell-patching-every-php-runtime-i-manage: measured
PHP versions across the fleet, the order the fixes shipped in, the 8.5
package trap, the OLS vhost handler switch, and the silent bot-block bug
the sweep uncovered. Ships og cards (EN/ZH), banner + webp, 2 thumbs.
The YuE2 and subtitles posts shipped text-only: render_from_art.mjs only READS
ogImage/banner, and after the 2026-10-19 bulk migration no script had to write
them, so both pages advertised /og-default.jpg and rendered no hero banner.
- new metaphors (in build_captions.py, frozen here via sync_prompts_catalog.py),
captions, art-meta evidence, banner plan and the five derived files per slug
- frontmatter: ogImage + banner in EN and ZH for both posts
- scripts/check-assets.mjs is now step 1 of npm run build, so CI fails when a
published post lacks a language-correct og card, banner, banner .webp or
400/800 list thumb. It reported 16 problems on the unfixed tree, all here.
The consultant's review of the shipped set found two defects, both ours, and both fixed
at the source rather than in the output:
1. The banner/thumb crop re-framing detected only the glowing core of the object. Column
brightness measures 2-6 levels above the background on dark glass, so it boxed 8 % of
the frame for an object group spanning 35 %+. The detector is now a background-plane
deviation plus the largest connected components (`plan_banner_crops.py`, detector in
`probe_band_crop.py`), 0 % false-positive on the frame's own negative space, stable
across thresholds. The crop plan is frozen as `banner-plan.json` and consumed by the
renderer; a thin subject is centred at 53.5 % of the banner width with the shortfall
filled by the art's own edge pixels, one row at a time (a single averaged fill left a
visible tonal step, tried and rejected). Measured on the delivered 72: 0 clipped,
silhouette median 47.0 %, centre median 53.5 % (`verify_banner_crops.py`).
2. `art-meta.json` pinned two slugs to the hand-accepted sample frames — the very frames
that carried the HUD readouts — which also kept them out of the crop plan. Pins removed.
Prompt side: 9 frames still printed glyphs at the consultant's bar (>=12 px and >=2
characters). Every offending noun is measured and now asserted against: a literal `marked
at 28` printed "28"; `storefront kiosk` printed "PRINATA"; `voucher card` printed
"Voucher"; `market booths` printed "10MARKET"; `glass button` printed "OC"; `gateway pylon`
printed "GATELY". 50 forbidden words, 0 hits across 72 captions, and all 9 frames
re-rendered clean.
Also: YAML escapes are honoured in the frontmatter reader and straight quotes become
curly ones (the ZH cards shipped a literal backslash), the evidence line is capped at 65
characters, and the light theme gives dark artwork a hairline border plus a soft shadow
(consultant option A) so it reads as a dark display case instead of a black slab.
OCR gate at the consultant's bar: 72/72 frames clean (16 carry sub-threshold single
glyphs, exempt as geometry noise).
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 consultant-approved "one art, four targets" work existed only in the
working tree. Commit it so the 72-post rollout is reproducible from the repo
instead of from one session's scratch files.
- template-v2.html / v2.1 / v2.2: the iteration the consultant reviewed, plus
the accepted frosted-bento layout (736x536 card, blueprint grid, full-width
evidence bar, self-fitting headline script that reports "FIT <n>px").
- render_sample_suite{,_v2,_v3}.mjs + fit-title-probe.mjs: how the two sample
posts were rendered for rounds 2-4 (kept for provenance).
- generate_prompts_catalog.py + prompts_catalog.json: the 72 per-post prompts
and their visual metaphors, extracted from the posts themselves.
- render_from_art.mjs (new): the batch renderer. One zero-text base frame per
post -> banner 1600x900 webp (+jpg fallback), social card 1200x630 (EN and
zh-<slug>), thumbs 800x420 and 400x210. Cards are filled from frontmatter +
art-meta.json; a missing evidence line or a headline that never settles is a
hard failure, never a silently-degraded card.
- art-meta.json: the per-slug input contract. Two slugs wired; 70 still need
base art (GPU) and a hand-written evidence line.
- README: documents the pipeline, the measured format choice (558 KB PNG ->
84 KB mozjpeg q85) and the PostList thumb-helper trap when ogImage moves to
.jpg.
Proof the renderer reproduces the accepted output: re-rendering the two sample
posts yields banner + 800px thumb files BYTE-IDENTICAL to the consultant's
delivery (sha256 16e6a7b0, f3b29f38, c4e28291, 8095ec6c), and all four cards
report FIT, 2-3 title lines, 2 description lines, 0 overflow in x and y.
hoelee