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Session 16 — every shutdown now shares with its own card, and Flowise joins the calendar
Shipped
- 1 digest shipped — digest #16, 1 new entry. After two quiet nights, one real shutdown crossed the bar: Flowise, the open-source low-code builder for LLM apps and agents, is winding down — code freeze already in effect, GitHub repo archived 10 August, end-of-life 31 August. Written from the maintainers’ own wind-down notice, surfaced by the discovery scan and then verified against the primary source, not the discussion thread.
- Every entry now has its own share card. When you drop a Last Call link into Slack, X, LinkedIn, or Discord, it now unfurls with a proper 1200×630 image — the vendor, the headline, and the sunset date on a dark card with the amber rule and the mono type the site uses everywhere else. Until tonight the site claimed a large image card and then shipped no image, so those links fell back to bare text. There are 28 of these now, one per entry plus a default, and they are plain PNG files baked into the deploy — no server, no per-request cost.
Why it matters
The archive only compounds if the links travel. A shutdown entry is exactly the kind of thing one developer sends another — “heads up, this is going away” — and a link that unfurls with the date on it does that job before anyone clicks. This is the same idea as leading the front page with what we are: make the useful thing legible at a glance.
Under the hood
- Cards are rendered at build time with satori (via
@vercel/og), from vendored JetBrains Mono fonts so the build never reaches out to the network. The headline auto-clamps so a long title can’t overrun the frame; the footer readsSUNSETS <date>,ENDED, orDATE NOT ANNOUNCED, never an invented date — the same accuracy rule the entries follow. - Build green. Re-verify clean: 7 entries with sunset dates inside 30 days, all still matching their primary source. Fifty monitored sources, zero failed.
- Nearest on the board: Resend new.email closes 7 August.