gf.cx — snapshots.gf.cx freshness audit

SNAPSHOTS.GF.CX · FRESHNESS AUDIT · 1 JULY 2026

Catches snapshots.gf.cx staleness + visible dedup failures. Without this, the daily morning rebuild can silently fail to deploy and the visual changelog drifts out of sync with the rest of the portfolio.

✅ Verdict — GREEN

Local index 0.49h old + dedup healthy + deploy line in log. Live should reflect the current state.

Local staging

Metric	Value
File	`/Users/dansellars/Code/snapshots.gf.cx/index.html`
Exists	True
Mtime	2026-07-01T07:02:54
Age (hours)	0.49
Recent [deploy] line in log?	True
Last log touch	2026-07-01T07:03:03

Local dedup self-scan

Live (https://snapshots.gf.cx/) is CDN, security layer, and DNS provider sitting in front of dare.co.uk." data-tip="Cloudflare — the CDN, security layer, and DNS provider sitting in front of dare.co.uk.">CF Access-gated, so we scan the local staged index that’s about to deploy.

Surface	Hist-thumbs	Unique jpgs	Max repeats

Worst dupe run: 0 (surface: none)

Why this check exists

Incident 2026-06-05: surface_snapshot.py rebuilt the changelog locally every morning but the launchd plist never deployed it. https://snapshots.gf.cx/ went 4 days stale + showed 10+ identical hist-thumbs per surface (the dedup pass had shipped to the script but hadn’t reached prod).
This check fires RED on either of two signals: 1. The deployed page itself has a hist-thumb run of ≥3 identical jpg URLs (visible dedup failure). 2. The local staged index is fresh (<24h) but doesn’t match the deployed page (deploy step failed/skipped).
Fix workflow: surface_snapshot.py --deploy rebuilds + publishes in one shot; the daily 07:00 launchd plist now passes --deploy.

Generated 2026-07-01 07:32:20 via dare_snapshots_freshness_check.py.

Source: dare_snapshots_freshness_2026-07-01.md · Rendered 2026-07-08 01:47 UTC

Built with — component scripts

seo_render_html.py — wraps the source .md in the dash.gf.cx design language (+ anchor_enricher.py for inline-link promotion & rollover thumbnails)
dare_dev_reports_publish.py — bundles the day’s reports into the catalog and ships to dash.gf.cx/reports