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dergigi commented May 19, 2026

The title should probably be something else 🤔

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I enjoyed reading this! Nice work!

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Kokkomaki commented May 21, 2026

The title should probably be something else 🤔

title suggestions (Claude the clanker suggestions):

  • Hello ASIC: One Engineer in Nairobi and the Open-Source Bitcoin Miner
  • Strength in Numbers: Kurt and the Open-Source Bitcoin Miners Taking on the Industry
  • Built in Nairobi: Kurt and the Open-Source Bitcoin Miner That Anyone Can Make
  • Open Source, Made in Africa: How Kurt Is Trying to Put Bitcoin Mining in Local Hands

my fav is the "Built in Nairobi", though we could also put "Made in Africa" (as per Kurt's words). So it'd be:

  • Made in Africa: Kurt and the Open-Source Bitcoin Miner That Anyone Can Make

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Replace TODO placeholder with optimized 1200px-wide JPG for OG and homepage cards.
dergigi added 5 commits May 21, 2026 23:13
The featured image in frontmatter already covers the hero; the inline
markdown image at the top duplicated it.
Place the photo after the soldering iron and laptop description so it
illustrates the workspace the reader has just been introduced to.
Move assets to spotlight/kurt-unger/ with short names (featured,
workbench, portrait) and drop the blog/q2-2026 path.
Wrap prose to match surrounding paragraph width; no content changes.
Use `> ` with plain text instead of italic-wrapped `>*...*` quotes,
matching other OpenSats blog posts.
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* refactor(blog): extract PostArticleBody and post shared helpers

Share sidebar, prose, footer, and comment chrome between PostLayout and
the upcoming spotlight layout.

* feat(blog): add SpotlightLayout with Substack-style cover hero

Full-bleed cover band with title and date overlay, aligned to the post
grid. Uses images[1] for the hero via getSpotlightHeroImage.

* feat(blog): select SpotlightLayout for spotlight-tagged posts

Auto-apply the spotlight layout when a post includes the spotlight tag;
explicit layout in frontmatter still overrides.

* feat(blog): add Kurt Unger spotlight hero image and OG convention

images[0] is featured.jpg for social previews; images[1] is hero.jpg
for the in-page cover band.

* feat(blog): overlay nav on spotlight posts with full-aspect cover

Position the header over the hero on spotlight pages with light nav text.
Show the cover at native aspect ratio on desktop so less of the photo is cropped.

* fix(blog): improve spotlight layout on mobile

Taller hero band with stronger gradients, smaller title and shorter date,
left-aligned author row, and clearer overlay nav on small screens.

* fix(blog): shift spotlight hero focal point right on mobile

Frame Kurt's portrait better in narrow viewports while keeping desktop
object position unchanged.

* fix(blog): fix spotlight hero alignment around 1000px viewport

Use calc-based full-bleed breakout, drop nested SectionContainer, enable
sidebar grid from 1000px, and share section width classes site-wide.

* fix(blog): repair spotlight layout by dropping bleed hacks

Remove overflow clipping and calc full-bleed that truncated the hero.
Use full-width main for spotlight pages with header and content sharing
postSectionClasses alignment.

* fix(blog): hide Apply button in spotlight header below lg breakpoint

Keeps the Apply CTA on desktop spotlight pages and on all layouts at
smaller widths where the full nav is not shown.

* fix(blog): format spotlight layout components

* feat(blog): make spotlight hero image explicit

* refactor(blog): centralize spotlight body classes

* fix(nav): clean up mobile scroll locking

* refactor(blog): restore spotlight image convention

* fix(blog): keep spotlight hero date short
dergigi added 4 commits May 22, 2026 13:36
Replace opensats.org absolute URLs for open-hardware and bitaxe with
paths consistent with other in-post references.
Reflow the KF1950 chip cost comparison so it matches the post's line length.
Close with series context, OSMU Discord CTA, feedback email, and General
Fund attribution plus spotlight and fund reference links.
Link to osmu.wiki instead of Discord in the closing call to action; reflow
footer copy to match post line length.
dergigi added 4 commits May 22, 2026 14:15
Rename series link to OpenSats spotlight, soften General Fund attribution
toward donors, and adjust OSMU community link label.
Put feedback and General Fund attribution before the OSMU community CTA;
add comma before please in the feedback sentence.
Move OSMU CTA before General Fund attribution; rephrase funding line
toward prospective donors.
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modl21 commented May 22, 2026

awesome, love this

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dergigi commented May 22, 2026

Waiting for final approval from Kurt.

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