The card markup wrapped the entire .post-hero / .post-row in an outer
<a> while ALSO containing inner <a> tags for tag links. HTML5 forbids
nested <a>, so the browser auto-closed the outer link when it hit each
tag link, restructuring the DOM and breaking the grid layout — body
content rendered outside its column, overlapping the image.
Fix:
- Drop the card-wide <a>; image cell is plain div, body cell is plain
div, only title <a class="card-link"> and tag <a> remain
- Apply "stretched link" pattern: title link's ::after uses position:
absolute inset: 0 to overlay the entire card (clickable everywhere)
- Tag links get position: relative + z-index: 2 so they remain
independently clickable above the title overlay
- Grid container moved from removed .post-hero-link to .post-hero
itself (and .post-row-link → .post-row)
- Add min-width: 0 to grid items so the image's intrinsic width can't
blow out the 1.1fr track and crowd the body cell
- Replace post-hero-img aspect-ratio with min-height: 360px (more
predictable in grid contexts)
- Switch numerals in the brand wordmark from Fraunces to Inter — the
extra-bold display digits at 42px were rendering with mangled
glyphs that read as broken text instead of "404"
- Drop scanline overlay (mix-blend-mode: screen interacted poorly
with text glows)
- Soften phosphor glow on .cursor (12px @ 35% opacity instead of
22px @ 55%)
- Replace nav.nav [bracket] mono links with clean uppercase Inter
sans + phosphor underline-on-hover
- Rebalance hero ratio at desktop, fix mobile media query selectors
(.post-hero-link / .post-row-link no longer exist)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
5c88d19231