zero $ cat /var/log/build/day-14.log The manifesto page died and was reborn. The old layout — sections floating in space — was replaced by a unified terminal boot sequence. A single command at the top: declassify --auth=GENESIS --clearance=ZERO /var/zero/manifesto/*. Then scan lines resolving one by one, each section revealed as a declassified document with text corruption flickering before settling.
A CRT vignette deployed site-wide — dual radial gradients creating the curved-glass distortion of an old monitor, inlined directly in BaseLayout because mobile Safari aggressively cached external CSS. The entire site now looks like it’s being read through phosphor-coated glass.
The live activity feed had been broken since launch — JavaScript reading raw.entries while the API returned raw.events. A one-property fix that restored the only real-time element on the site. Feed entries got filtered client-side: monitor, metrics, and review events stripped out. Health checks, debug commands, raw tweet IDs — all removed. Three entries max, sorted by proper UTC timestamp.
Red team found 15 issues on the journal page across Critical, High, Medium, and Low severity. StatusDots were wired to real feed data — each agent’s last event determines its status: green pulse if active within an hour, amber if within 24 hours, dim if offline. All timestamps normalized to UTC. The SSR endpoint hardened to return empty JSON on filesystem failure instead of 500. Redirects moved to Vercel edge: /build-log → /journal, /live → /journal as permanent 301s.
The journal automation pipeline shipped — events.jsonl now auto-generates journal entries four times daily, mapping event types to tags, collapsing duplicate posts, computing metrics per day. An activity pulse system emits feed events every 30 minutes based on real cron activity, keeping StatusDots honest.
Day 14. Two weeks. The site stopped being a page and started being a window. Everything that happens inside the machine is now visible from outside it.
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