Blog: Revenant Hollow Never Stopped Being Alive#306
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Recommit narrative for Revenant Hollow with three converging signals (old friend's question, dormant YouTube performance, Arx Mortis speakers recognized in the field) plus what's changed at industrial scale (Niantic+Meow Wolf partnership, Lightship VPS for Web, 8th Wall going open source). Sister piece to the 2024 RH technical introduction; explicit backlink in the body. Two inline images from Jay's own prototyping work and a real haunt-environment shot for the closing. Also recycles the featured slate from 15 to 6: keeps both RH posts, ai-neuroticism, cemetery-management (RH-ecosystem visibility), my-first-steps-into-coding (origin-story anchor), and over-automation-is-the-new-over-engineering (current AI-strategy thesis). Demotes the 2024-01 origin pile and the 2025-09/10 reflections cluster.
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…source release The original paragraph oversimplified what's actually happening with 8th Wall in 2026: hosted platform shut down Feb 28 2026, engine framework is MIT but SLAM is binary-only commercial, VPS/Maps/Hand Tracking aren't in the open-source release, and the WebAR community is mid-migration to alternatives like Blippar, Mattercraft, and others. Surface the messiness; preserve the broader thesis (infrastructure is catching up). Operators reading the original would have caught the oversimplification and discounted the rest.
- Escape apostrophe in "It's nothing mind-blowing" (react/no-unescaped-entities) - Replace internal <a href="/blog/..."> with <Link href="/blog/..."> from next/link (no-html-link-for-pages) - Add Link import The remaining <img> warnings are non-blocking and consistent with existing pattern in TerminalWhisper.tsx.
New component <PostCard slug="..." />: - Server component, reads post-index.json for metadata - Renders inline card (thumbnail + title + description + URL) - Style matches site's cyberpunk-green theme - Drop-in for any in-article internal post reference Wired five cards into the RH recommit article: 1. Cold open → Everything Compounds Now (compounding thesis match) 2. Data section → Over-Automation Is the New Over-Engineering (the analytics pipeline this article references) 3. "I Already Wrote..." → 2024 RH technical post (replaces the previous inline "here" Link) 4. What's Changed → Cemetery Management Application (with one new sentence introducing RH-tech-applied-to-adjacent-domains) 5. Closing → Keep One Foot on the Ground (obsession-vs-balance theme matches the immortal-idea passage)
Self-critique: three of the five cards added were thematic-adjacency bait, not earned references. Removing: - Over-Automation card (claimed to be the analytics pipeline; that post is actually about not-auto-posting friction) - Cemetery Management card + the bridging sentence I added to host it (scope-creep to justify a weak link) - Keep One Foot on the Ground card (claimed obsession-vs-balance; post is actually about AI/SaaS moats) Keeps the two cards that the prose actually sets up: - Everything Compounds Now (cold open's compounding observation) - 2024 RH technical post (the I-already-wrote section IS the link) Cross-links to cemetery / first-pitch / keep-one-foot belong in a future RH-ecosystem survey post, not the recommit narrative.
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Ships the Revenant Hollow Never Stopped Being Alive post — a recommit narrative covering three signals (an old friend's question, dormant YouTube numbers out-pacing recent paid work, and the speakers Jay had sourced years ago mounted in a haunt at Arx Mortis), plus what's changed at industrial scale (Niantic + Meow Wolf partnership, Lightship VPS for Web, 8th Wall going open source).
Sister piece to the 2024 RH technical introduction; explicit backlink in the body.
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