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post(case-studies): running production infrastructure solo — 162 containers, three hosts (EN+ZH) + og/banner
The Phase C1 keystone asset (Story B). Publishes the infra case study:
- architecture: 3 hosts / 162 containers / 78 compose stacks with the per-host split
- incident record: the monitoring panels that lied, and the Passbolt cascade
- how the numbers are re-derived (verify_infra.py) rather than remembered
- no uptime percentage: availability is not measured, so the post says 'monitored'
- hire CTA (case-study convention)

EN + ZH twins, og + banner generated and measured (OG 5 tags/1 row, banner 8 lines delta 2).
2026-10-06 08:04:02 +08:00
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banner-gen — per-post banner/hero image generator

Generates a branded 1600×900 (16:9) banner image for a blog post — shown at the top of the article, above the title. Matches the site's cobalt-blue branding and the "terminal / debugging" visual language (siblings with scripts/og-gen/, which produces the 1200×630 social-share image).

Usage

node scripts/banner-gen/generate.mjs <post-slug>

Reads the post's category from frontmatter, fills template.html, renders with headless Chrome, and writes public/banners/<slug>.png.

Then add banner: /banners/<slug>.png to the post frontmatter (en + zh) — [...slug].astro renders it above the H1 title.

Customizing content

Each post's banner content lives in BANNERS in generate.mjs, keyed by slug, with three parts:

  • titlebar — the terminal window's title-bar text
  • lines — terminal body rows: { t, text } where t ∈ cmd · dim · err (red) · ok (green) · hl (amber) · prompt ($)
  • flow — bottom pipeline steps: { n: '1', label: '...', err?: true }

No entry → a generic default banner.

Requirements

  • Google Chrome at C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe (CHROME_PATH to override).
  • Node 20+.

Relationship to og-gen

  • og-gen → public/og/<slug>.png (1200×630, 2:1) for social sharing.
  • banner-gen → public/banners/<slug>.png (1600×900, 16:9) for the article hero. The banner is a "filled" visual (terminal + flow pipeline), not a poster — avoid large empty margins.