Devafusion.net

Engineering log

Devafusion digital presence: About, Contact and Organization schema

Rewrote the About page with the full Deva Victrix origin story and engineering-principles copy, built out the Contact page stub, published GitHub/X/LinkedIn as rel="me" identity-verified links, and added Organization JSON-LD plus a sitemap fix so the site is genuinely discoverable and verifiable by Google Search Console.

Decisions

  • Single source of truth for social/contact identity in features/brand/social-links.ts, consumed by SiteFooter, /about and /contact so the URLs never drift out of sync between the three surfaces.
  • rel="me" on every GitHub/X/LinkedIn link - the microformat Google and the IndieWeb use to verify identity ownership, which is what makes the Organization JSON-LD's sameAs entries verifiable rather than arbitrary outbound links.
  • Only hello@devafusion.com (general) and legal@devafusion.com (privacy/legal) are published as public contact points; billing@devafusion.com is provisioned and monitored but deliberately not surfaced anywhere yet since it has no live use today - publishing an unused mailbox is a trust-eroding dark pattern this site avoids.
  • /legal is now linked permanently in SiteFooter on every page instead of being a contact-page-only deep link, since privacy/cookie disclosure should always be one click away, not buried.
  • sitemap.ts now generates /log/[slug] and /projects/[slug] entries dynamically from engineeringLog and projects instead of a hardcoded static route array - every published log entry was previously invisible to search engines.
  • Log entries in the sitemap use their own real date field for lastModified instead of a build-time timestamp, since stamping every page as "changed" on every deploy causes Google to deprioritize recrawling pages it believes it just saw.
  • Organization JSON-LD rendered once in the root layout (components/seo/organization-schema.tsx) rather than per-page, declaring name, url, logo, email and the sameAs array of verified social profiles.

Milestones

  • Rewrote /about with the Deva Victrix origin story, the Roman Madder Red/Legionary Gold/Gladius Steel visual-DNA explanation, an engineering-principles section (TDD/BDD, CI/CD, Clean Code, IaC, continuous learning), and internal links to the engineering log and project entry.
  • Built out /contact from a placeholder stub to a real page with email and social contact channels.
  • Added SocialLinksRow (compact and labelled variants) and wired it into SiteFooter, /about and /contact.
  • Added the OrganizationSchema JSON-LD component and wired it into the root layout.
  • Fixed sitemap.ts to dynamically enumerate log and project detail routes with real lastModified dates, and updated its test suite to match.
  • Verified with npm run typecheck, npm run lint, npm run test:unit and a full npm run build, then inspected the prerendered HTML for /, /about and /contact to confirm the JSON-LD, footer links and rel="me" attributes all render correctly.

Validation

  • npm run typecheck
  • npm run lint
  • npm run test:unit
  • npm run build

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