Reference

Design system

Every ratio was computed with tools/a11y/contrast.py against all three grounds. This page is noindex: it documents the template for whoever builds with it.

Two colours, because there are two kinds of day

Blue is work and every elapsed figure. Rust is waiting, and it appears on queue bars, on the queue total in the headline, and on the words cannot be moved — nowhere else on the page. The chart legend names both in words before either is used, because the distinction is the argument and it cannot be carried by hue.

The chart is made of divs

Two absolutely-positioned spans per row, sized in percent of the total span, and the whole track is aria-hidden. Both numbers a bar encodes — the day it starts and how long it lasts — are printed as text in the same row, so the chart is a way of seeing an arithmetic that is fully present without it. Day 119 drew its argument in SVG; doing that again here would have made it a house style rather than a decision.

Every figure in the prose is computed

The 254-day span, the queue total, the work total, the longest single stage, the cost per copy and the demo funnel ratio are all arithmetic over config.ts at build time. Change one stage and the headline, the paragraph under it and the chart all move together, which is the only way a page of numbers stays true after somebody edits it.

The markup says MORE than usual, for once

Six days running, the structured data here has deliberately said less than the page, because schema had no vocabulary for the distinction being drawn. This is the opposite case. CreativeWork carries dateCreated as well as datePublished, and the gap between them is precisely what this page is about, so the MusicAlbum emits both. Almost nothing on the web publishes dateCreated for a record. aggregateRating and offers are still declined.

Type

Tokens

The border token clears 3:1 against all three grounds, which is what WCAG 1.4.11 asks of a non-text boundary. It is never used for text.