Changelog.

/now/ heartbeat page · Blog SEO sweep · 404 navigation hub

Site got a heartbeat, blog became mobile-SERP-friendly, dead-link traffic now converts to a real destination.

• /now/ — Sivers-style "what's shipping this week" page with live pulse-dot, 5 sections (current focus, recently shipped, by-the-numbers from canonical_stats.json, reading/listening/watching, intentionally-not-doing), Prime Directive pull-quote
• Blog SEO audit — auto-stripped 22 over-long suffixes, hand-curated 16 still-too-long titles down to ≤55 chars, intelligently shortened 4 over-long descriptions. Final: 0/27 posts exceed 65 chars
• 404 page upgrade — kept SAMO© Basquiat aesthetic, added "Most likely you wanted" 6-tile destination grid + sovereign-network sibling row. Direct access now public (/404.html in allowlist)

Press kit rebuild · sitemap-of-sitemaps · 27 blog cross-link rails

Press surface is now journalist-ready, search engines see the empire as one map, every blog reader is one click from any other site.

• /press/ rebuild — added "Receipts for Journalists" 6-card grid + 8-link "Machine-readable assets" section pointing at every llms.txt and JSON endpoint
• /sitemap-index.xml — new sitemap-of-sitemaps listing all 3 subdomain sitemaps. Updated robots.txt to declare 4 Sitemap directives
• Blog post cross-link rails — Python patcher injected "Beyond the Blog · Sovereign Network" 4-card section into all 27 individual posts (idempotent)

5th anchor deep-dive (Bentley to Gorman) · /legacy/contribute/ · blog cross-links

Visual receipts grew to 5 anchors covering 16 years (2010 → 2026). Family/friends now have an actual portal to add to the memorials.

• Bentley to Gorman deep-dive — 5th anchor (Vegas-lifestyle tier). Hero with cyan/yellow palette, full-bleed photo, DAJAI's pull-quote, Armand Perry connection, 5-card cross-link of all anchors in chronological order
• /legacy/contribute/ — submission portal with 3-step picker (which brother → what to send → how to send), 6-card types matrix, 6-bullet "Our Promise" commitment, FAQ. Linked from legacy index gold CTA + every individual legacy footer
• Blog index cross-link rail — 3-card sovereign-network section between post grid and footer

Nhale Clothing deep-dive · BreadcrumbList JSON-LD · 6 album schemas enriched

• Nhale Clothing deep-dive — supporting-evidence anchor extending the DPGC story to a 3rd household (Broadus · Griffin · Hale)
• BreadcrumbList — added to all 4 deep-dives as a second JSON-LD block
• Album schema enrichment — 6 album sub-pages got @id, image, sameAs, genre, and critical date corrections (Daj's Dedication 2022→2019, Sport 2022→2019, Neoworld 2023→2018, Athletics 2023→2017, Flight to Vegas 2 2023→2025)

Warren G deep-dive (3rd top-3 anchor) · GA4 scaffold · Twitter Cards · enriched legacy Person JSON-LD

• Warren G × DAJAI deep-dive — DPGC-lineage anchor with full graph showing how Warren → Snoop → Cordell → Nhale → DAJAI all connect
• GA4 conversion scaffold — gated on window.GA_ID, auto-binds [data-track] clicks, scroll-depth at 25/50/75/100%, outbound link tracking
• Twitter Cards + Person JSON-LD enrichment — added summary_large_image to 4 legacy + 2 deep-dive pages; legacy Person schemas grew from 7 to 13 fields each

Health Dept PSA deep-dive (2nd anchor) · cba + videos sitemaps · MusicAlbum JSON-LD

• Health Dept Commercial deep-dive — 2010, age 14, 2 years before CBA. 7-row arc timeline (2010 → 2026)
• Sitemaps for cba.dajai.io and videos.dajai.io — separate from dajai.io main sitemap. videos sitemap dynamically generates 161 URLs from the catalog
• MusicGroup + 10 MusicAlbum JSON-LD on /music page — graph of 11 entities for rich snippets
• Family-tree page got a "Forever Worn · Chosen Family" cross-link block to all 3 legacy pages

CLS prevention · font-display: swap audit · conversion ladder · mobile nav · script defer

• CLS prevention — explicit width/height on all 4 dynamic image sites (music-cover 600×600, album-thumb 120, archive grid 400, marquee 300) + decoding="async"
• Mobile nav — horizontal-scrollable with mask-image fade-out at right edge, hidden scrollbar, no hamburger needed
• Conversion ladder — pink/orange CTA card between Music and Archive sections with two CTAs (Browse Catalog, Telegram Drops)
• Defer non-critical scripts — Archive, Families, Connect populators wrapped in requestIdleCallback

Skeleton loading states · Sovereign Network footer (3 domains) · preload/preconnect · pulse indicators

• Skeleton shimmers — :empty pseudo-states on music-feature/archive-grid/families-grid before JS populates
• Unified Sovereign Network footer — same 3-card cross-domain block on all 3 sites with "you are here" highlight
• Performance polish — dns-prefetch 4 siblings on dajai.io, preload hero video + og-image as LCP hint, 3 cross-domain preconnect on cba and videos
• Live pulse indicators on all 3 domains (cba: "Active · Still Running · 14 Years In", videos: "Archive · Indexed · Live", dajai already had it)

3 fallen soldier legacy pages · 10 Bands Freestyle deep-dive · Hellcat hero ken-burns

• /legacy/ + 3 individual memorials — Neo Kauffman, Rashad Gage, @GirlsLoveTrey. Persistent memory entries seeded for next session continuity
• 10 Bands Freestyle deep-dive — first top-3 anchor. 16 frames, full transcript, Broadus-family context, JSON-LD VideoObject
• llms.txt Patch 2 + canonical_stats extension — In Memoriam section, 11 stat keys grew to 21, JSON symlinked to single source of truth
• Cinema-grade video heroes — dajai opacity 0.12→0.22 + ken-burns + layered radials; Hellcat got ken-burns + grain overlay (Next.js rebuild + service restart)
• cba.dajai.io polish — 12 corrections from session start (Brennan Marion removed, fallen soldiers added, Stewart brothers fixed at 3, etc.)