Nav bar & layout consistency
- Base.astro's `wide` layout now defaults on for every page (was opt-in),
fixing the nav bar wrapping differently depending on page width
- Icon buttons for search and theme toggle (magnifying glass, sun/moon),
replacing the plain "Search" text link and the "◐" glyph
- Search is now a Cmd/Ctrl+K modal over Pagefind (lazy-loaded on first
open) instead of a separate /search/ page, matching the old site
- Fixed the article page's TOC sitting with unwanted left padding relative
to the header (grid was center-justified instead of start-justified)
Smooth navigation
- Added Astro's ClientRouter for animated page transitions
- Every page-local script that only ran once at module load (three.js
hero, minimap, comments, book-spine carousel, scroll-to-top, reading
progress, theme toggle, Pagefind init) now re-initializes via
astro:page-load, with AbortController-based cleanup so window/document
listeners don't accumulate across client-side navigations
Restored from the legacy Zola site
- Reading progress bar (article pages) and scroll-to-top button
- Share buttons (X, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Reddit, HN, email) on writings
- Prev/next post navigation with the old label/title layout
- Utterances comments, wired to andwati/andwati.com with dark/light
theme sync
- YouTube embeds: any plain <iframe src="...youtube-nocookie.com...">
is now auto-wrapped in a responsive 16:9 container, gets
loading="lazy", and emits VideoObject JSON-LD — no shortcode needed
- LaTeX: $inline$ and $$block$$ math renders to static HTML via KaTeX at
build time (no client-side JS shipped for it)
- Tags page redesigned as a centered, alphabetical tag cloud
Removed the related-posts section per request.
Accessibility & contrast
- --accent (#d1502f) measured 4.0:1 on the light background, just under
WCAG AA's 4.5:1 for normal text — darkened to #a84025 (5.7:1), plus
matching light-mode-only fixes for the two hljs syntax colors and the
tip/warning callout colors that had the same problem in light mode
- Fixed heading-order violations (h1 straight to h3 with nothing at h2)
across the homepage, writings/portfolio/bookshelf/blogs lists, and tag
pages — introduced a shared .entry-title class for the h2 list titles
- Fixed inconsistent title-link underline colors: a plain <a> carries its
own default underline (in its own text color) instead of matching its
parent heading's accent-colored one — h1/h2/h3 anchors now explicitly
inherit the heading's decoration
- Bookshelf spine colors are generated per-title from a hash; the
lightness-based text-color heuristic could still produce sub-4.5:1
contrast for some hues (e.g. green) — now computes real WCAG contrast
and adjusts
Performance
- The three.js homepage hero was the single largest main-thread cost
site-wide (dragging that page's Lighthouse performance score to the low
80s while every other page scored 95+): three.js is now dynamically
imported only once the browser is idle (WebGL-support check split into
its own tiny module so unsupported browsers never fetch it at all), the
render loop is capped to ~30fps, and hover raycasting only runs on an
actual pointer move instead of every frame
SEO & structured data
- Self-referential canonical links site-wide (with override support for
posts first published elsewhere)
- Sitewide WebSite/Person JSON-LD, plus per-article BlogPosting,
BreadcrumbList, and (when applicable) VideoObject JSON-LD
- robots.txt explicitly welcomes AI/LLM crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot,
PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, etc.) and points at llms.txt
- Added an Atom feed (RSS and JSON Feed already existed)
- Sitemap now sets <lastmod> per entry from its own date/updated
frontmatter instead of leaving every URL at build time
Analytics & comments infra
- Self-hosted Umami wiring via PUBLIC_UMAMI_SCRIPT_URL/WEBSITE_ID
(apps/site/.env.example), no-ops until both are set
- sws.toml's CSP updated to allow utteranc.es and analytics.andwati.com —
without this both were silently blocked in production
Lighthouse CI
- @lhci/cli wired up against the built site (mobile + desktop configs),
`pnpm run lighthouse`, and a GitHub Actions workflow to run it on every
push/PR — reporting only for now, no failing thresholds
- Added a Docker entrypoint script to manage content repository cloning and updates.
- Updated server configuration to include public URL and proxy settings.
- Enhanced content file utilities to return file paths for written entries.
- Introduced GitPublisher class for handling Git operations and deployments.
- Added tests for Git publishing functionality.
- Updated Dockerfile and docker-compose for production setup.
- Added new public PGP key and security.txt for contact information.
- Created new About and Archive pages in the site.
- Updated site configuration to include new navigation links.
Replaces the legacy Zola script, which was hard-coded to the retired
"CASE FILE" branding, with scripts/generate-og-images.astro-site.mjs
built on the new design system's dark palette + Fraunces/JetBrains Mono.
Base.astro now renders og:image/twitter:image from a per-page ogImage
prop, wired into the writings and bookshelf detail pages.
Uses static-weight Fraunces/Newsreader font packages rather than the
variable fonts the site ships elsewhere, since satori's opentype.js
parser throws on their fvar table.
Root "dev" script uses concurrently to run both apps with labeled,
color-coded output ([site]/[cms]) instead of needing two terminals.
The per-app dev:site/dev:cms scripts stay for when you only want one.
scripts/migrate-posts-to-writings.mjs converts all 20 posts under
content/posts/ into the new writings schema — normalizes dates to
bare TOML local-dates, converts the one unambiguous Zola shortcode in
use (youtube embeds) to a plain <iframe>, and strips the now-meaningless
{% raw %}/{% endraw %} escape tags. content/posts/ itself is untouched;
this only adds content/writings/*.
Also generates 301 redirects from the old /posts/<slug>/ URLs to the
new /writings/<slug>/ ones into sws.toml, inside marker comments so
re-running the script regenerates that block idempotently instead of
duplicating it.
Two posts (from-c-to-machine-code, self-hosting-gitea-and-mirroring-github)
use note/tip/warning/danger callout shortcodes that have no Astro
equivalent yet — flagged by the script rather than guessed at, since
that needs a real component once the design system exists.
Verified: astro check clean, full site builds (80 pages, all real
migrated posts render), redirect generation confirmed idempotent
across repeated runs.
Set up a pnpm workspace with apps/site (Astro) and apps/cms (Strapi,
SQLite-backed) as the foundation for the new digital-legacy site.
Switches package management to pnpm and adds Biome for linting/
formatting, replacing npm/no-linter setup. Existing Zola site stays
in place for now and will be migrated/removed progressively.
Production (Dokploy/Docker) was sending no security headers at all -
static/_headers and wrangler.toml were Cloudflare Pages/Workers
config that static-web-server never reads. Added sws.toml with the
same CSP/security headers and the two redirects from _redirects,
wired into the Dockerfile. Removed wrangler.toml, static/_headers,
static/_redirects, the wrangler devDependency/deploy script, and
related .gitignore/.dockerignore entries since Cloudflare deploy is
no longer used.
Also fixed a console error in theme.js where the Utterances
postMessage call could fire before the comments iframe navigated to
utteranc.es.
Renders a 1200x630 social card per post (satori + resvg-js, using the
site's own self-hosted fonts) instead of reusing one generic og-image.png
for every post. Wired into npm run build via a new generate:og step;
templates/page.html falls back to the per-slug image unless extra.image
is set, and non-post pages keep the generic fallback.
- new paper/ink palette with single red accent, replacing catppuccin
- self-hosted IBM Plex Serif (display) + Source Serif 4 (body), drop Outfit
- rebuilt homepage masthead, numbered post index, navbar with active states
- switch syntax highlighting + utterances to gruvbox, synced via postMessage
- remove terminal/404 easter egg chrome, clean up remaining inline styles
- fix stray syntax.css link causing a 404
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