Deploy / build (push) Successful in 25s
New flagship case study covering a GPU-backed whisper.cpp transcription API reachable from Windows, iPhone, iPad and Android behind an authenticated gateway — framed as a service offering with the office-productivity case (roughly 5x typing throughput, unlimited, audio never leaves the premises). Content: - EN + ZH posts (same slug -> auto language switch) - "Why it matters" opener, hire CTA with clickable WhatsApp + mailto - Four documented traps: incomplete CUDA component selection, loopback bind mistaken for a firewall problem, n8n Code nodes discarding binary + the data0 key name, and nginx default.conf hijacking port 80 - Honest scoping of the auth model (access control, not hardened public API) Assets: - Custom OG image + 16:9 banner (generator entries appended, not patched inside the template-literal maps) Also marks Mem0 (B1) done and adds B1b to project-state.md.
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 textlines— terminal body rows:{ t, text }wheret∈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_PATHto 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.