Shelve the Local AI offer and repoint the site at the job search - #74
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The CVs say "built from lived experience" and stop there, on purpose. The site then stated the diagnosis outright, one click from every CV. The bullet it replaces says what that line was standing in for anyway: the app ideas were always there, the way to build them wasn't. Also deletes src/utils/timelineData.ts. It's an older copy of src/lib/timeline.ts with no importers, and it still carried the line. Editing the live file alone would have left it sitting in the repo.
The site sold private, local AI to businesses in the present tense: a Services page, three priced offers, "See what it costs" in the hero, and "I set up private AI that runs on your own hardware" in the meta. None of it has a client behind it yet, and every CV I send links here. An employer reading it asks two questions I don't want asked: is he actually available, and has he really done this. So the offer is shelved, not deleted. The tag v-local-ai-2026-08 has it byte for byte, and this is the commit to revert when it comes back (CLAUDE.md has the how). What goes: the /services route and page, the pricing, terms, retainer and FAQ constants, the ProfessionalService JSON-LD and its drift test, the home teaser, the rent-vs-own strip, and the newsletter (the Substack is still a "Coming Soon" page with no posts, so Subscribe was a button to nothing). What replaces it: a greeting in the hero again, a "why this site exists" passage on About in my own words, a contact page that says I'm after a full-time role, Dev Journey in the desktop nav, and the Buy Me a Coffee link back in the footer and on /contact. /services and /skills redirect to /about so old links from LinkedIn and the commercial site still land somewhere. Note that /contact dropped under the prerender's 600-character floor once the four process cards went (594). The fix is two honest lines of copy, not a lower floor.
The copy sat straight on the canvas with a radial scrim behind it. The scrim dimmed the average frame and lost the one that matters: a rain head is near-white, and when one passed behind a letter the letter went with it. It also did nothing for the rain-off case, where the text floated on a flat black ground with no edge to hold it. The panel is the same treatment the console window has had all along: a translucent surface, a blur, a border and a layered shadow, plus a second plate offset behind it for depth. The plate is a ::before at z-index -1, behind the panel's own background and still above the rain canvas at -10 (the same trick .fx-scrim::before relies on).
The link text under "connect" read linkedin.com/in/thomasjbutler while its own href pointed at thomasbutleruk. That's the handle on the CV, so a reader checking the two saw a mismatch on the one page most likely to be checked. Every social href in the header, footer, home and contact pages was a hand-typed string. The last two commits on main were both fixes to the same URL across five files, which is the argument for one source: they all read LINKS.github and LINKS.linkedin now.
The CV says Wetherby, this site said York, the commercial site says Liverpool, and the timeline was tagged Liverpool on 25 of its 26 entries. An employer who checks all three sees three cities and no explanation. Leeds, Yorkshire reads best to a recruiter and is the one every surface now agrees on. The JSON-LD address gains a region (West Yorkshire) while it's open. package.json's description still introduced "an aspiring full-stack web developer", with literal \r escapes in it; it's a one-liner now.
"Founded AiTomatic company for AI consulting and development" implies funding and a team. It's one person, self-funded, with no clients yet, and the honest version reads better to anyone who has read forty CVs. The entry had also been copied from the commercial site: "began developing this commercial portfolio" linked back to this site and called it the portfolio. The link goes to thomasjbutler.me now, which is the thing the sentence was about.
About said I studied computing in the 2010s. Updates said I wrote my first line of code in November 2022. Same site, two stories, ten years apart, and the 2022 one is true. It's also the better story: a standing start to production AI systems in under four years, by way of two years as a DWP Work Coach that the site never mentioned at all. The About timeline is six entries now, Updates gains a January 2021 entry for the DWP, the Fuelius entry names Fuelius, and the Level 4 apprenticeship reads "studied 2023-24" everywhere it appears, because it was studied and not completed.
The home page's recent-work list ended at things that were current in the spring and a newsletter that never started. The five entries now match what the commercial site lists for 2026, so a reader who checks both gets the same story: the Offshore Property Map, the CV engine, the ISQ Agent presentation, The Kicker, and Sanctuary on iOS. The Offshore Property Map also gets its own August 2026 entry on Updates. It's the most technically serious thing on the site and it wasn't on the site.
The filter had a Creative tab with nothing in it, and nothing separated "built this to learn the thing" from "built this because I wanted it to exist", so the CSS showcase sat at the same weight as an entity resolution engine. A Portfolio tag says which is which, and it lets a reader see the progression rather than a flat pile. Creative was already (0). Once the learning projects move to Portfolio, Personal is (0) too, so both go. Big Bang Canvas and the .NET/React Calendar come back as Portfolio cards; they were retired because a take-home exercise looked weak next to a price list, and there is no price list now. LFC News stays retired: its only link is a demo that depends on Reddit API terms that changed under it.
The route is gone but the URL is still linked from LinkedIn and the commercial site. On GitHub Pages a path with no file gets 404.html, and the <Navigate> in App.tsx only fires after that shell has hydrated, thrown the expected mismatch (React #418), re-rendered and sat through the boot intro. Measured: six to twelve seconds of a "404" page before About appears, on the one old URL people will actually follow. services.html is the same shape as blog.html: meta refresh, canonical to /about, noindex, and a JS replace for good measure. It's a Vite input so it lands in dist/, and the prerender copies it to services/index.html for the trailing-slash form. Redirects in about two seconds now, most of which is the page load itself. Note that /skills and the .html legacy paths still take the slow route. They were like that before this and nobody links to them.
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Align the explanation with the actual robots rules.
User-agent: * with Allow: / already permits these crawlers through the wildcard. The named Allow: / blocks document the crawlers explicitly, but they are not invited instead of being covered by the wildcard. Update the comment to describe this accurately.
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In `@public/robots.txt` around lines 3 - 5, Update the comment in the robots
configuration to state that the named crawler Allow rules explicitly document or
permit access in addition to the existing User-agent: * Allow: / wildcard,
rather than implying they are invited instead of being covered by it.
"// projects" sat directly above an h1 reading "Projects", so the page opened by saying its own name twice. The h1 stays (it's the landmark, and the e2e looks for it); the eyebrow goes. The subtitle also still promised "creative projects" after the Creative tab went, so it now says what's actually in the grid. Separators between the three sections, matching About. The featured grid, the filterable grid and the closing CTA ran into each other with nothing but margin between them.
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What
Shelves the Local & Private AI offer and points the site at the job search: projects and personality, one honest timeline with the DWP in it, Leeds everywhere, and a way back.
Why
Every CV links here, and the site was selling private AI to businesses in the present tense with no client behind it. An employer reading it asks whether I'm actually available and whether I've really done this, and I don't want either question asked. The 25 Aug audit (
WEBSITE_PERSONAL_Updates.md) found four truth problems on top of that: the ADHD diagnosis stated outright on /updates, three different locations across the CV and the two sites, a LinkedIn handle on /contact that didn't match its own href, and "Founded AiTomatic company".The positioning isn't wrong, it's early. It comes back late 2026 or 2027.
How
Ten commits, in the audit's order, each reviewable on its own:
v-local-ai-2026-08one71241fwent up first (pushed). Byte-for-byte snapshot of the shop window.5917444is the shelving commit and the revert target when the offer returns. Everything else is meant to survive that revert (Leeds, the DWP, one LinkedIn handle, no ADHD line), which is why they're separate commits and not one./servicesis a static redirect page (same shape asblog.html). The URL is live on LinkedIn and the commercial site, and the 404-shell route to/aboutmeasured six to twelve seconds.Decided rather than asked, worth a glance: the newsletter strip went with the offer (the Substack is still a "Coming Soon" page with no posts, so Subscribe was a button to nothing); Dev Journey is in the desktop nav; the JSON-LD
jobTitleis "Full Stack Developer" to match LinkedIn and the CV; the tip jar is back in the footer and on /contact.Testing
npm run type-check,npm run lint(0 errors; the 14 warnings were there before) andnpx vitest run(117/117) after every commit.npm run buildafter every commit that touched rendering. Every route clears the prerender's 600-character floor. /contact dropped to 594 when the four process cards went; two lines of real copy fixed it, not a lower floor.dist/grepped for every old string (York, Liverpool, the prices, "for business", ADHD, Founded, Run It Local, "See what it costs"): nothing left./servicesplus/services/timed against the preview.npm run test:e2e. The spec was stale before this branch and is repaired in it, but Playwright's pinned browser build isn't installed on this machine.Deploy / rollout notes
npm run deployis deliberately not part of this.frontendengineercodecademycertification.pdfis sitting untracked in the repo root and is untouched.Related
~/Personal/JobSearch2026/00_ACTIVE/WEBSITE_PERSONAL_Updates.mdgit log --grep="Shelve the Local AI offer"thengit revert. CLAUDE.md, "Shelved positioning", has the details and the truth constraints that outlive it.Summary by CodeRabbit
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