Draw a social card for every repository - #9
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Every repository in the organisation showed GitHub's default preview when its link was pasted anywhere: a grey card with an avatar and a line of metadata. The site has had a generated card since August. The repositories, which are what people actually link to, had none. One generator draws all seven in the site's visual language, so they cannot drift into seven different looks. What a card says comes from REPOS in the script rather than from the GitHub API: it is a decision about what to lead with, and a generator that silently redraws when someone edits a description is one nobody can review. Uploading a card is still manual — GitHub exposes no API for the social preview — so the cards are committed here and the repository settings point at them.
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Every repository shows GitHub's default grey preview when linked. The site has had a generated card since August; the repositories had none.
One generator, the site's visual language, seven cards at 1280×640 (what GitHub crops to).
--checkverifies presence and size rather than bytes: the cards are drawn with whatever fonts the machine has, and a Linux runner has neither Georgia nor Calibri.Uploading is manual — GitHub has no API for the social preview. After merge, for each repository: Settings → General → Social preview → Upload, using the matching file from
cards/.