**Nine guide videos rebuilt in the light house style.** They were dark — a reader
clicking between sibling guides watched the theme flip. mcp, performance,
rendering, skills, html-in-canvas and remove-background were restyled to the bone
field; faceless-explainer, product-launch and voice-and-audio were re-narrated
with River, the house voice the user-journey films use. Measured luma is 177-230,
matching the journey films, and every one carries audio.
The restyle also surfaced a real bug in the frame itself: the house coral
#D96A4F is 2.95:1 on bone, under the WCAG large-text floor, and `hyperframes
check` failed on it. Darkened to #B44E33 (4.43:1) before any of these rendered.
**canary-rollouts trimmed from 2,443 words to 520.** The statistical-calibration
essay — pre-registered experiment design, a probability formula, rejected
hardware-fingerprinting alternatives — was never documentation for someone
shipping a staged rollout. Cut to Add one / Override one / Remove one / Where it
lives, the part that was already good.
**thirty-days now shows the films.** It was 431 words and 30 links to x.com for a
series entirely about videos, with no thumbnails. It now leads with real preview
clips where a film exists and marks the rest with a visual placeholder rather
than a dead off-site link.
**The poster guard I added twice was unworkable and I never ran it.** It called
existsSync on docs/images/catalog/<name>.png. That directory is gitignored —
previews are generated locally, uploaded to the CDN and never committed — so the
check is false on every clean checkout and in CI. It would have stripped the
poster from all 168 pages, not the 13 with a missing file. It also referenced
REPO_ROOT, which does not exist in that file, so the script crashed on the first
item. I described this guard in two commit messages without once executing the
generator.
The poster is now gone entirely, which is the smaller and more honest fix. These
previews are autoPlay muted loop, so the poster is visible for a few hundred
milliseconds; 13 of the 168 files do not exist and the browser fetches the poster
before the video. Removing the attribute kills 13 x 403 and 168 needless image
requests, and there is nothing to keep in sync.
Also applied a complexity pass to the delivery encode:
- hasAudio() deleted. 17 lines and a spawnSync per item to choose between
"-c:a aac" and "-an". ffmpeg ignores -c:a when the input has no audio stream;
checked, exit 0, output carries no audio track.
- The 40-line spawn + Promise wrapper is execFileSync. Everything around it in
that script is already synchronous.
- The duplicated poster lookup is gone with the poster itself.
Net 76 lines lighter. Generator runs clean, emits 168 pages, carry-forward intact.
Product launch, colour grading, faceless explainer, captions and recuts, motion
graphics, and voice and audio.
Five of these led with a six-to-eight second teaser. A six-second clip on the
page that teaches you to make explainers does not teach anything — it is a
placeholder that looks like content. Colour grading, the most visual feature in
the product, had no video at all.
The new films are 34 to 41 seconds and each shows a RANGE rather than one look:
four ways to tell the same idea with no footage; five caption treatments on one
untouched clip; correction, presets, curves, selective colour, all four scopes
and a LUT; narration with music ducking under it and effects on the beat. The
launch film is built by running the workflow on huly.io for real, so the page
that sells the workflow is showing its actual output.
They share one visual system, measured from HyperFrames own light-theme launch
films rather than invented: bone field, near-black type, coral accent, and the
product always a dark panel inset on the light field. Every one carries audio at
about -20 dB and is 1-2 MB.
The old teasers are removed from the three pages where they became a duplicate.
They stay in the workflow picker, which is where a six-second tile belongs.
Guides with nothing to look at: 15 at the start of this work, 5 now.
Adds the pages the rebuilt navigation is organised around, and moves the sidebar
onto that structure. Every entry points at a file that exists after this commit;
nothing is rewritten or removed yet, and no redirect is claimed yet.
- Studio (13 pages) — the editor had no section of its own
- One guide per creation workflow, matching the shipped agent skills
- Section hubs: Concepts, Catalog, Developers, Deploy, Workflows, Help,
Go further, Product updates, 30 Days of HyperFrames
Pages a later commit retires drop out of the sidebar here but still exist and
still resolve, so the site stays navigable at this commit.
Incidentally fixes a link to /concepts from the Lambda migration guide that is
broken on main today — the destination did not exist.
ukimsanov