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A full dependency-upgrade pass took the site from Astro 5 and a stale, workspace-hoisted install to Astro 7 with its own independent lockfile — and uncovered a silent content-collection regression along the way.
Michael StatonUpgraded investment memo rendering to use the full markdown pipeline with Shiki syntax highlighting, Mermaid diagrams, citation support, and a server-side image proxy for private GitHub assets.
New CSS-based hero glow effects library with six distinct animation styles, plus design system page reorganization separating Three.js flare components from pure CSS glow effects.
Added Shiki syntax highlighting to changelog code blocks with tokyo-night theme, plus a reusable CodeblockWrapper component that enhances rendered code with a compact header and copy button.
Added Mermaid.js diagram rendering to markdown content with matter-theme styling, using a custom rehype plugin to preserve mermaid blocks from Shiki processing.
Extracted 33 individual slide section components from strategy and thesis narratives, created PageAsDeckWrapper layout with double-click navigation, ported citation system with popovers, and promoted reassembled pages to production index.
Complete Open Graph and SEO infrastructure with dynamic image generation, JSON-LD structured data, collection defaults, and messaging-first optimization.
Renamed DNA-Figure8 to EventHorizon--Spectra, refactored HumanBody--BackView into a focused Glowing Orb, and created a new configurable Orb with Neck component supporting multiple orientations and neck configurations.
Public portfolio page refactored to fetch companies from NocoDB with multi-mode logo switching and transparent SVG color treatment.
Added email-based authentication as an alternative to passcode, with domain allowlisting and NocoDB session tracking.
Simplified email capture flow that grants immediate access to confidential content while logging sessions to NocoDB.
Enhanced header with Explore jumbotron dropdown, animated nav underlines, and improved mobile menu hierarchy.
Implemented session duration tracking using a heartbeat pattern - zero external dependencies, ~100 lines of vanilla JS, tracks exactly how long users view confidential content.
Extracted changelog page variants into reusable layouts with client-side view toggling. Created Button--Default component, ChangelogViewToggler, and three PageHeader variants for the design system.
Major refactor separating Thesis (market opportunity) from Strategy (fund intentions), overhauling the Header navigation with brand-colored Explore dropdown, and extracting reusable UI components.
Full-featured NocoDB API client with typed records, pagination, caching, and portfolio-specific transformations.
Five rich narrative section components with citations, animations, multi-theme support, and CMS-ready YAML schema.
Extracted TeamMemberCard and TeamMemberCard--Wide components with comprehensive design system documentation.
DealCard--Micro and DealCard--Micro--Confidential components for public and authenticated pipeline views.
State-of-the-art changelog UI with timeline, card grid, and GitHub releases variants plus structured frontmatter schema.
Automatic latest version discovery for investment memos from private GitHub repo with 10-minute TTL caching.
First team page version with data-driven TeamMember model, role-based spans, and inline SVG social icons.
Initial theming pass with BaseThemeLayout, branded header/footer, and three-mode toggle (light/dark/vibrant).
Major creative sprint with 7 hero variants and signature WebGL particle Orb component.
Key breakthrough: discovered :global() wrapper needed for data-mode selectors in Astro's scoped CSS.