SD-213

[aesthetic-strip] Decorative layer stripped. Captain’s diagnosis: site looked like “a developer who spent too long theming their website” — “cuter. More intentional” than professional researcher blogs. Fix was subtraction. Killed: terminal prompts ($ cat ./blog/posts.log), coloured heading hierarchy (h2 cyan, h3 purple, h4 green), card backgrounds/borders, performative footer (“No tracking. No cookies. No bullshit.”), $ prefixes on see-all links, emoji, tag # decorators, blockquote background fills, border-radius, transition effects. Tokyo Night palette stays. Application becomes invisible. The site should look like someone who doesn’t think about their website.

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