revert(blog): the dogfooding piece belongs to Cato, not to the platform - #896
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Published to the wrong surface, and the two are not interchangeable. content/blog is OrangeCat speaking in its own voice to visitors who have just arrived — corporate authorship, general audience, the platform describing itself. The piece was a first-person account of one person building his own company on the platform and finding four bugs doing it. That is a user's writing about their own work, and it belongs on that user's profile as an article. The tell was in the frontmatter I wrote: author "Mao Nakamoto", which is neither the platform nor the name the author actually publishes under. Getting the surface wrong produced a byline that was wrong twice over. Republished as a Cato article via the composer, which is also the path this dogfooding run is meant to exercise — the article surface is user-authored by design, and using it is the test. Nothing is lost: the content is unchanged, it simply moves to the place where its byline is true. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01G2LBioUzJP4oBL9LeH9qAe
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Published to the wrong surface, and the two are not interchangeable.
content/blogis OrangeCat speaking in its own voice to visitors who have just arrived — corporate authorship, general audience, the platform describing itself.The piece was a first-person account of one person building his own company on the platform and finding four bugs doing it. That is a user's writing about their own work, and it belongs on that user's profile as an article.
The tell was in the frontmatter:
author: "Mao Nakamoto"— neither the platform, nor the name the author publishes under. Getting the surface wrong produced a byline that was wrong twice over.Republished where it belongs
https://orangecat.ch/articles/i-built-my-next-company-on-my-own-tools-and-four-things-broke-immediately-eb7u80
Bylined Cato, 1,106 words, and now covering four findings rather than three — writing it in the composer is what surfaced the editor stall (fixed in #895).
Using the article surface is also the point: it is user-authored by design, and exercising it is the test this dogfooding run exists to perform. Doing so turned up a fifth finding — publishing succeeds but redirects to a blank page; a reload renders it fine. The moment of success shows nothing.
Nothing is lost. The content is unchanged; it moves to the place where its byline is true.
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