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.
References: pixperk.tech (dark, warm off-white text, serif-italic +
mono mixed typography, personal dashboard modules) and mcyoung.xyz
(meta line with reading time, subtle accent underline on titles).
- src/styles/tokens.css: dark-first color palette with a warm-paper
light mode (data-theme override + prefers-color-scheme, toggle wins
either direction), fluid clamp() type scale, spacing/radius scale.
- Fonts: Fraunces (display/headings, italic), Newsreader (body,
long-form readability), JetBrains Mono (nav/meta/code) — all
self-hosted via @fontsource, continuing the mono choice already
used in the legacy OG-image pipeline.
- Base.astro rewritten: real header/nav with active-link state, a
theme toggle (persisted to localStorage, no-flash inline script),
footer with social links (ported from zola.toml), replacing the
scaffold placeholder.
- Reading time: toml-content-loader.ts computes wordCount/
readingMinutes from the raw body at load time, surfaced in the
writings list and detail meta line.
- Bug fix: the marked heading renderer was using raw token.text for
both the visible heading and the TOC, so a heading like
"**Registers**" rendered literal asterisks instead of bold — now
renders inline tokens properly and strips markdown for the
plain-text TOC label/slug.
Verified in-browser (light + dark) across home, a migrated writing
with TOC/headings, bookshelf, and 404.
"subresource integrity", "task scheduler", and "conventional commits"
had spaces, producing broken-looking /tags/<tag>/ URLs. Also fixes a
silent bug: site.config.ts's tagDescriptions already keyed
"subresource-integrity" with a hyphen, so the per-tag description
never actually matched the un-normalized tag.
Added normalizeTag() to migrate-posts-to-writings.mjs so re-running
the migration script doesn't reintroduce the spaces from the
untouched content/posts/ originals.
scripts/generate-llms.astro-site.mjs covers writings, portfolio,
bookshelf, and blogs (unblocked now that site.config.ts exists from
the feeds/meta work), wired into apps/site's build script.
Also fixes .gitignore: the bare `public` pattern (meant to ignore the
Zola build's root-level output directory) was matching at any depth,
so apps/site/public/ and apps/cms/public/ were being silently
excluded from every commit despite `git add` reporting them as
staged for directory adds (the ignore-file warning only surfaces for
an explicitly named path, not a recursive directory add — easy to
miss). Scoped to `/public` so only the root output dir is ignored.
Picks up robots.txt, the Astro scaffold's favicon, llms.txt, and
Strapi's own public/robots.txt, none of which were actually tracked
until now.
404: "Page Fault" — a SIGSEGV/memory-fault framing distinct from the
retired terminal easter egg, still fitting the CS-flavored identity.
Plain/unstyled for now like the rest of the placeholder layout;
restyle once the design system lands.
src/lib/spring.ts: a small CSS+Web Animations API spring utility
(damped harmonic oscillator -> keyframe progress values), per the
locked "no animation library" decision. Not wired into any component
yet — this is the foundational primitive the design system's motion
work will build on, kept free of any visual/component opinions.
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.
- src/site.config.ts: minimal site metadata (title, description,
base URL, nav, tag descriptions) ported from the legacy zola.toml
as a placeholder pending real design/copy.
- RSS (@astrojs/rss) and JSON Feed endpoints, sitemap
(@astrojs/sitemap), robots.txt.
- Base.astro: meta description (site-wide default or per-page
override via llms_description/description), RSS/JSON feed
<link rel=alternate>, and a webmention endpoint link (plumbing
only — needs the domain registered on webmention.io to do
anything).
- toml-content-loader.ts: marked renderer now assigns heading ids
and collects them into rendered.metadata.headings, so
render(entry) exposes headings the same way a built-in Markdown
loader would.
- Writing detail page: table of contents, prev/next navigation,
series-nav (uses the existing extra.series/series_index fields),
and tag-overlap related posts.
- Tags index + per-tag pages, tag links wired in from writing cards.
- Pagefind: indexes the build output as part of `pnpm build`
(astro build && pagefind --site dist), plus a /search/ page using
Pagefind's default UI.
Verified: astro check clean, full build succeeds (feeds/sitemap/
pagefind all generate correctly), and manually exercised /search/
(real query, highlighted results) and /tags/ in a browser against
the built site.
apps/cms/src/utils/bookshelf-covers.ts fetches book covers from Open
Library by ISBN (real image, cached into apps/site/public/covers/)
and backfills missing title/authors for papers from Semantic Scholar
by DOI/arXiv id. Wired into the sync middleware in content-sync.ts:
runs once per entry (cover_image already set means "done"), and only
on live create/update through Strapi, not during the boot-time
import (so a restart doesn't hammer external APIs).
Also renames the bookshelf `status` field to `read_status`
everywhere (schema, content/README.md, seed content, Astro zod
schema, bookshelf page, sync mapping). Strapi's content-manager API
treats a top-level `status` key as its own reserved draft/publish
parameter even with draftAndPublish disabled, so an attribute
literally named `status` silently rejected every write — caught this
while testing the enrichment hook.
Verified end-to-end: created a book by ISBN with no cover_image,
confirmed a real cover image was downloaded and cached, cover_image
was set on the entry and written to the file, and the cover/file were
both removed on delete.
Adds slug (uid) fields to all four content types so Strapi documents
can be matched to files deterministically, plus:
- apps/cms/src/utils/content-file.ts: read/write/delete the +++ TOML
frontmatter files, using smol-toml's TomlDate so dates round-trip as
bare local dates (matching the legacy Zola format), not quoted
datetime strings.
- apps/cms/src/utils/content-sync.ts: per-type frontmatter <-> Strapi
field mappings, a boot-time importer that upserts every content/
file into Strapi by slug, and a Document Service middleware that
writes any create/update/delete made through Strapi straight back
to the same files.
Strapi's SQLite DB is now genuinely a disposable cache: content/
stays buildable and readable with Strapi entirely absent, and
restarting Strapi rebuilds its DB from content/ with no duplicates
(matched by slug).
Verified end-to-end: fresh boot imports all seed files once; a second
boot re-imports idempotently (0 created, all matched by slug); create/
update/delete through the content-manager API all correctly write to
and remove the corresponding file on disk.
apps/cms/Dockerfile.dev + root docker-compose.yml give a one-command
way to run the CMS in a container for testing (docker compose up
cms), with the shared content/ directory mounted so it matches the
host dev setup. apps/cms/Dockerfile is a production multi-stage build
for later Dokploy deployment. Uses node:24-bookworm-slim to match the
local Node version and get glibc prebuilt binaries for better-sqlite3
without needing a native build toolchain in the final image.
Verified: both images build, the dev container boots Strapi
successfully, admin panel and API routes are reachable, and the
mounted content/ volume resolves at the same relative path the future
sync provider will expect.
Adds writing, portfolio-entry, bookshelf-entry, and curated-blog
collection types with attributes mirroring the TOML frontmatter
fields in content/README.md exactly, so the future sync provider has
a direct field mapping. draftAndPublish is disabled on all four since
our own `draft` boolean (synced to the file) is the source of publish
state, not Strapi's built-in workflow. Verified Strapi boots and
registers all four REST routes (api/writings, api/portfolio-entries,
api/bookshelf-entries, api/curated-blogs).
Adds a custom Astro loader that reads the Zola-style TOML frontmatter
(+++ ... +++) directly, so content/ stays the single source of truth
with no YAML conversion step. Defines writings/portfolio/bookshelf/
blogs collections and basic list/detail pages for each, rendering the
seed entries end-to-end (verified in-browser via `pnpm --filter site
dev`). This is the first runnable MVP: home, writings list + post
detail, portfolio, bookshelf (books and papers), and curated blogs
all render from real content/ files.
Fixes the formatting deltas from the initial Astro/Strapi scaffold
and brings the legacy generate-og-images/generate-llms/validate-post
scripts in line with Biome's style. No behavioral changes.
Adds content/README.md documenting the TOML frontmatter contract each
content type must follow, plus one seed entry per type to lock the
schema in a runnable form. Bookshelf entries use a kind field ("book"
or "paper") so academic papers (DOI/arXiv id) are first-class
alongside ISBN-driven books, not bolted on later.
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.
Adds a multi-stage Dockerfile (Node for llms.txt generation, the
official Zola image to build, static-web-server to serve) for
deploying via Dokploy/Docker instead of Cloudflare Pages. This is an
additional path, not a replacement - wrangler.toml and the Cloudflare
build.sh remain in place as an option.
Also bumps build.sh's pinned ZOLA_VERSION from 0.22.1 to 0.23.1: the
prior commit migrated every template to Tera v2 syntax (components,
spread operator, native slicing), which 0.22.1 can't parse - confirmed
by a live Cloudflare build failure on this branch. Keeping build.sh
and the Dockerfile on the same Zola version avoids maintaining two
template dialects across the two deploy paths.
Verified: `docker build` succeeds, the container serves the homepage,
a post, the youtube embed, and a proper 404; `build.sh` also runs
clean standalone (simulating the Cloudflare build) and produces a
fully populated public/.
bin/update-zola always installs the latest release, which as of
v0.23.0 rewrote the template engine to Tera v2. That broke the whole
site: removed filters (slice, concat, escape), test calls now require
named args, shortcodes are gone in favor of Tera components, and
content itself is now Tera-templated before markdown runs.
- slice(end=n) -> native [:n] slicing; concat(with=x) -> spread [...arr, x]
- escape -> escape_html; starting_with/containing -> named `pat` arg
- get_taxonomy_url `name` -> `term` (old name is deprecated)
- %+ date format no longer recognized; replaced with explicit RFC3339 pattern
- shortcodes (note/tip/warning/danger/youtube) rewritten as components;
content call sites updated to component invocation syntax
- {% include %} no longer inherits for-loop-local variables (only ambient
page/section context) - post-card.html converted to a component that
takes page/index explicitly instead of relying on implicit `page`/`loop`
- two content code blocks with literal Jinja-style {{ }} syntax (Netlify
CMS config, a Flask template snippet) wrapped in {% raw %} so Tera
doesn't try to render them, since content is now templated too
- fixed a real content corruption bug along the way: the youtube
shortcode's multi-line <iframe> tag had a conditional that could
collapse to a whitespace-only line, which prematurely closed the
HTML block under CommonMark rules and got the rest of the tag
syntax-highlighted as code instead of rendered
Verified with a clean `zola build` and `zola serve` on v0.23.1, plus a
spot-check of the rendered HTML for both callouts and the video embed.
`zola check` only reports pre-existing external link rot, unrelated to
this change.
Cloudflare Workers static assets rejects the www->apex redirect rule
with "Only relative URLs are allowed" (Pages allows absolute source
URLs for cross-host redirects, but this project deploys via wrangler's
static assets, not Pages, which doesn't). The www/apex canonicalization
needs to be handled via Cloudflare's dashboard Redirect Rules instead.
15 screenshots in the ScriptCTF writeup had empty alt text. Also removed
two <img> references in the semver post pointing at files that never
existed in the repo (leftover from the old Netlify CMS media setup).
[[extra.menu]] silently swallowed ~20 later extra.* keys (posts_page_title,
search_placeholder, show_rss_link, notfound_*, etc.) into the last menu
entry/tag_descriptions table, since TOML absorbs bare keys into the last
open table until a new header appears. show_rss_link was the only visibly
broken one (RSS link missing from homepage); the rest were masked by
matching template defaults.
Also replaced Tera's default() filter with explicit if/else where values
feed into JSON-LD, since default()'s fallback gets escaped in a way `safe`
can't undo. Added author/dateModified to BlogPosting list entries.
- 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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