THE LEDGER PATTERN

Projects, devlog, wiki, docs, blog — every index page is a typed array in src/lib/ rendered through one card component. Add an entry, get a card, a route entry, a stat in the strip. The page is a query; the registry is the database.

why data-first

Registries force honesty at authoring time. A project with no href renders xcy://name — a protocol stub, visibly unreachable. An entry that can't show a commit hash doesn't get a diff link. The schema encodes what counts as real.

interface Project {
  status: "live" | "dev" | "rnd";
  locked?: boolean;      // sealed ≠ unreleased
  href: string | null;   // null → xcy:// stub
  src:  string | null;   // null → no SOURCE btn
}

It also makes the site cheap to extend: the v2 pages (docs, blog, contact) are three new registries and their renderers — no layout work, because the layout was always the data.