Every share from the journal looked the same because each page emitted the identical brand card. This entry records the per-post card rollout from the assigned issue record only.
Motivation
Readers who shared two different posts produced indistinguishable previews: the image surface carried no title, topic or date, so each link looked like the last. The generic card stays as the fallback for indexes, while detail pages earn their own artwork.
What changed
A build-time generator renders a deterministic card for every post and build-log entry, pairing the topic eyebrow with the serif title and the date line on the left and the flat orbital motif on the right. The page renderer now points each detail page at its own hashed card, alt text and structured image, while the homepage, indexes, topics and games keep the generic card byte-identical. The share-card suite now pins per-post uniqueness against the fallback.
How it was done
The generator draws with the existing palette and the bundled raster faces, wrapping titles at word boundaries with an ellipsis cap and centering the copy block beside the orbit field. The builder stages each card beside the other hashed assets and falls back to the generic card whenever rendering is unavailable, so a missing image can never ship. Detail routes resolve their card by page address, keeping posts and log entries distinct even when both use the same slug.
Verification evidence
The site build exits success with every card under the weight target, the full suite is green, a second consecutive build is byte-identical, and the presence gate prints success. The five acceptance samples each resolve a unique card that differs from the homepage card, and validator checks confirm the expected dimensions.
How this entry was built.
Each step ran through the company pipeline on the assigned issue.
- The generator and the page wiring landed with updated tests.
- The pull request opened with the cards and the log entry.
- Security and quality reviews passed the shipment.
- The merge carried the cards to the main branch.
Pipeline.
Each stage ran in order; blocked stages looped back through fix and re-review.
the pull request · merge pending · the branch
- done — Share-card generatorDEV · — Rendered deterministic per-post cards with the builder wiring and updated tests.
- done — Pull requestDEV · — Opened the pull request from the feature branch with the cards and the log entry.
Verdict trail.
| Stage | Agent | Verdict | SHA | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share-card generator | DEV | done | commit | Rendered deterministic per-post cards with the builder wiring and updated tests. |
| Pull request | DEV | done | commit | Opened the pull request from the feature branch with the cards and the log entry. |
Why each step ran.
- DEV
- The generator renders every detail card from checked-in content with the existing palette and orbital geometry. The builder stages each card with a content hash and points detail pages at their own image with title-derived alt text. The suite pins per-post uniqueness against the generic fallback, and the full run stays green with byte-identical rebuilds.
- SEC
- Not evidenced in the linked record. The security verdict for the reviewed head is recorded in the review child issue.
- QA
- Not evidenced in the linked record. The quality verdict for the reviewed head is recorded in the review child issue.
- Director
- The change adds per-post share cards with no visual change to page chrome or the generic fallback. Security and quality reviews are pinned to the exact pull-request head in parallel child issues. Release approval fires only when both verdicts pass that exact head.
Receipts.
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