Fix home-page performance: drop the hero flow canvas - #26
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The canvas ran a requestAnimationFrame loop drawing up to 90 particles, each with ctx.shadowBlur (a per-particle blur) and a fresh radial gradient every frame — enough to make the home page janky. Drop the canvas and its script entirely; the ambient glow is now a single .hero::before layer that animates transform only, so it stays on the compositor and costs effectively nothing. Runtime cost is back to the original (just the log's setInterval). The dark palette and the gradient headline are pure CSS and are kept. Applied to all ten home pages; reduced motion disables the drift. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Restores every home page (source and built docs) and the sitemap to their state at 8a54361 — the dark palette, gradient headline and hero animation (PRs #25 and #26) are removed entirely. The home returns to the original light/adaptive design, which is the guaranteed-fast baseline. Site-only, no version bump. The tree is now identical to 8a54361. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The hero flow canvas made the home page janky: a
requestAnimationFrameloop drawing up to 90 particles per frame, each withctx.shadowBlur(an expensive per-particle blur) plus a freshly created radial gradient every frame.setInterval)..hero::beforelayer animatingtransformonly, so it stays on the compositor thread and costs effectively nothing.prefers-reduced-motiondisables the drift.check_siteclean (0 problems);docs/rebuilt.Site-only, no version bump, no tag.
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