From c8eb62016cfd1992e09e1071f9dc2ce1d73b9e3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lee Edwards <leeredwards@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:20:15 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Update the README for the mirror's removal
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It still documented the static mirror as the crawlability story — the URL list,
the <noscript> block, "regenerates that company's page" — all of which #128
deleted. Replaces that section with how it actually works now: fragment
addressing, the redirect map, and the visually-hidden block, plus why the mirror
went away and what it cost.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 README.md | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b6d8ccda..416fe5b5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Who needs a website when you have a terminal.
   - instagram: instagram account
   - git: this repo
   - github: all repos
+  - swag: rootvc store
   - locate: physical address
   - www: plain-text version of this site
   - test: do not use
@@ -95,7 +96,7 @@ That build:
  - copies and minifies the xterm vendor assets
  - bundles the app boot/runtime code into `dist/js/app.bundle.js`
  - emits a minified lazy-load asset for the RickRoll animation
- - generates the static mirror and `dist/index.html` (see below)
+ - generates the crawlable surface and `dist/index.html` (see below)
 
 Anything not on the copy list in `scripts/build-assets.js` stays out of `dist/`,
 so `scripts/`, `tests/`, `package.json`, and the unbundled `js/` sources are not
@@ -103,32 +104,48 @@ served.
 
 `npm start` builds and then runs `netlify dev` against `dist/`.
 
-## The static mirror
+## Crawlability
 The terminal renders its content only when someone types a command, so search
-engines and LLM crawlers see an empty page. `scripts/build-pages.js` renders the
-same `config/*.js` data as plain HTML at real URLs:
+engines and LLM crawlers see an empty page. `scripts/build-pages.js` closes that
+gap from a single URL:
 
 ```
-/about/  /jobs/  /portfolio/  /portfolio/<slug>/  /team/  /team/<slug>/
-robots.txt  sitemap.xml  llms.txt  llms-full.txt
+index.html     an offscreen block naming every company and person
+_redirects     the old mirror URLs, 301'd into the terminal
+llms.txt  llms-full.txt  robots.txt  sitemap.xml
 ```
 
+Content is addressed by URL fragment: `/#tldr-chargelab` tells the terminal to
+run `tldr chargelab` on load, and `js/terminal-ext.js` splits the command from
+its argument on the **first** hyphen so a hyphenated slug still resolves.
+
+There used to be a static mirror here — real HTML pages at `/about/`, `/team/`,
+`/portfolio/<slug>/` and the rest. It worked well enough to cause the problem it
+had: Google indexed all 70-odd pages and started showing sitelinks to About /
+Team / Jobs under the root.vc result, advertising a conventional website sitting
+behind the terminal. It was removed in #128 and those URLs now 301 to their
+commands. Since Google strips fragments before indexing, this deliberately
+trades per-company search results for having exactly one indexed URL.
+
+The homepage block is a `.visually-hidden` div rather than `<noscript>`:
+extraction pipelines routinely strip `<noscript>` as non-content, and Googlebot
+indexes the rendered DOM, which drops it once JS runs.
+
 **`config/*.js` is the only source of truth.** Changing a portfolio description
-regenerates that company's page, both indexes, the sitemap, the llms files, and
-the `<noscript>` block in `index.html`.
+regenerates the homepage block, the llms files, and the redirects.
 
-There is nothing to keep in sync. The mirror is never committed — it exists only
+There is nothing to keep in sync. None of it is ever committed — it exists only
 in `dist/`, and every deploy runs `npm run build` and regenerates it from the
 current `config/*.js`. No cron, no CI drift check, no "rebuild and commit" step:
-a config edit reaches the static pages the moment it is deployed, because that
-is the only way the pages come into existence.
+a config edit reaches the generated files the moment it is deployed, because
+that is the only way they come into existence.
 
 `index.html` in the repo root is a **template**. The regions between its
 `<!-- BEGIN generated-* -->` sentinels are empty; the build injects the JSON-LD
-and `<noscript>` blocks when it writes `dist/index.html`. Do not paste generated
-content back into the template.
+and crawlable-index blocks when it writes `dist/index.html`. Do not paste
+generated content back into the template.
 
-Use `npm run build:pages` to regenerate just the mirror while iterating —
+Use `npm run build:pages` to regenerate just those files while iterating —
 `netlify dev` does not watch `config/*.js`.
 
 Firm-level facts (blurb, thesis, fund size, office address, email) live in

From fda6db131d58492b03cb628af4f64bb10bdf4cbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lee Edwards <leeredwards@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:20:15 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add a swag command for the Root store
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Opens https://rootvc.creator-spring.com, listed in help and the README alongside
the other link commands. Tab completion picks it up from the commands object
with no extra wiring.

Also drops a stale comment above `www` that still described the static mirror it
used to point at, left behind when the body was rewritten in #128.

Originally proposed in #65 in September 2022. The patch no longer applied —
commands.js, help.js and the README have all moved underneath it — but the store
is still live and still Root's, so the change is reapplied here rather than
asking for a four-year-old branch to be rebased.

Co-Authored-By: unkrich <unkrich@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 config/commands.js | 6 ++++--
 config/help.js     | 1 +
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/config/commands.js b/config/commands.js
index ae9726bb..847e4d93 100644
--- a/config/commands.js
+++ b/config/commands.js
@@ -152,6 +152,10 @@ const commands = {
     term.displayURL("https://github.com/rootvc");
   },
 
+  swag: function () {
+    term.openURL("https://rootvc.creator-spring.com");
+  },
+
   twitter: function () {
     term.displayURL("https://twitter.com/rootvc");
     term.displayURL("https://twitter.com/machinepix");
@@ -165,8 +169,6 @@ const commands = {
     term.openURL(`mailto:${firm.email}`);
   },
 
-  // Points at the static, crawlable mirror of this terminal generated by
-  // scripts/build-pages.js. Same data, plain HTML, real URLs.
   www: function () {
     // There used to be a static mirror at /about/, /portfolio/ and friends.
     // Those URLs now redirect back into this terminal, so pointing at them
diff --git a/config/help.js b/config/help.js
index 1d65f5fb..2d8d49af 100644
--- a/config/help.js
+++ b/config/help.js
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ const help = {
   "%locate%": "physical address",
   "%www%": "plain-text version of this site",
   "%jobs%": "check out our job openings",
+  "%swag%": "rootvc store",
   "%test%": "do not use",
   "%upgrade%": "upgrade to the latest version of Root Ventures",
   "%other%": "try your fav commands (e.g. %ls%, %groups%, %su%)",