feat(blog): mirror self-improving stack series

[drewstone]

Summary

• Mirrors the complete the-self-improving-stack series into the website blog feed.
• Normalizes frontmatter to the website schema (title, slug, summary, date, author, tags).
• Assigns seriesOrder for coherent series ordering.
• Spreads date values across 2026-05-26 through 2026-06-07 for fresh SEO recency.
• Adds website series metadata so the index renders with a proper series description.

Notes

• Included only the 13 non-draft, non-original posts in the series.
• Excluded component-heavy draft/original posts that are not safely portable to the website renderer yet.

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❌ Needs Work — f6f42053

Readiness 38/100 · Confidence 80/100 · 7 findings (1 high, 2 medium, 4 low)

glm: Correctness 38 · Security 38 · Testing 38 · Architecture 38

Full multi-shot audit completed 4/4 planned shots over 24 changed files. Global verifier still owns final merge decision.

Blocking

🔴 HIGH 12 internal links in series index use /posts/ but site routes at /blog/ — src/content/blog/the-self-improving-stack.mdx

Lines 459-470: All 12 cross-links to other posts in the series use /posts/{slug}/ (e.g., /posts/self-improving-stack-optimization-theory/). The actual page route is src/pages/blog/[...slug].astro, and the blog index at src/pages/blog/index.astro:86 generates links as /blog/${post.data.slug}. All existing blog posts also use /blog/ for internal links (e.g., building-ai-services-on-tangle.mdx:24 uses /blog/building-on-tangle-from-idea-to-production). Every one of these 12 links will 404 in production. Fix: replace /posts/ with /blog/ on all 12 links.

Other

🟠 MEDIUM Hardcoded author meta tag disagrees with blog post authors — src/layouts/BaseLayout.astro

Line 38: <meta name="author" content="Drew Stone" /> is hardcoded. BlogLayout receives an author prop (line 8) from frontmatter (e.g. post.data.author via [...slug].astro:71) but never passes it to BaseLayout. Result: every page on the site — including blog posts by other authors, legal pages, 404 — claims 'Drew Stone' as the HTML meta author, while the JSON-LD in BlogLayout:38 correctly uses the dynamic author prop. This creates an inconsistency between structured data and meta tags that search engines may surface. Fix: add `a

🟠 MEDIUM Stake page hero says COMING SOON but FAQs reference live deposit/delegate flows — src/pages/stake.astro

Hero eyebrow changed to 'COMING SOON' (line 83), but FAQ answers at line 61 say 'Deposit and delegate to earn TNT now' and line 69 says 'Deposit in the "Staking" tab'. These are contradictory. If staking is coming soon, the FAQs should not instruct users to deposit now. If it is live, the hero should not say COMING SOON. Impact: user confusion on product availability status. Fix: align FAQ content with the COMING SOON status

🟡 LOW Index file reading order diverges from seriesOrder — src/content/blog/the-self-improving-stack.mdx

Lines 459-470: The link list presents posts in order [4, 2, 3, 11, 12, 9, 7, 8, 10, 5, 6, 13] instead of sequential seriesOrder [2..13]. This appears intentional (conceptual reading flow vs chronological order), but readers may expect the list to match the numbered order they see on the blog index page. No action required, but worth confirming this is deliberate.

🟡 LOW Empty keywords meta tag rendered on all non-blog pages — src/layouts/BaseLayout.astro

Line 36: <meta name="keywords" content={keywords.join(', ')} /> with default keywords = [] (line 21) renders <meta name="keywords" content="" /> on every page that doesn't pass keywords. All ~20 non-blog BaseLayout callers pass no keywords. Google ignores the keywords meta tag entirely, so this has zero SEO impact — it's just dead markup. Fix: conditionally render the tag only when keywords.length > 0, or accept as harmless.

🟡 LOW dateModified always equals datePublished in JSON-LD — src/layouts/BlogLayout.astro

Line 40: dateModified: date is identical to datePublished: date (line 39). Schema.org allows this on first publish, but the field adds no information if it always mirrors datePublished. No frontmatter modifiedDate field exists to differentiate. Low impact — structured data validators may flag it as redundant. Not a blocker.

🟡 LOW Unused StatsStrip import in blueprint-agent.astro — src/pages/services/blueprint-agent.astro

Line 4 adds import StatsStrip from '../../components/ui/StatsStrip.astro' but the component is never rendered in the template (zero <StatsStrip tags). Every other page that imports it also uses it. Dead import. Fix: either add the StatsStrip to the template or remove the import.

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❌ 1 Blocking Finding — f6f42053

Full multi-shot audit completed 4/4 planned shots over 24 changed files. Global verifier still owns final merge decision.

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