[nimkimi]

What

Makes hackimi.dev competitive for the "Nima Hakimi" name query: recovers the dead-but-still-ranking /projects URL, name-led titles, a schema.org entity graph, a first-ever favicon + branded OG card, an honest sitemap, and Search Console wiring.

Workstreams

1. Redirects — /projects (Google's current Redesign: design-forward developer portfolio with a signature monogram arrival #1 result for "Nima Hakimi developer", 404 since the June redesign) and /projects/* now 308 to /work; hackimi.vercel.app (exact host match — preview deployments untouched) 308s to the apex domain, closing the indexed-duplicate hole.
2. Name-led metadata — the homepage <title> was literally "Portfolio" (the root segment never receives the layout's title template); it is now "Nima Hakimi — Developer & AI Engineer" as an absolute string. A site-wide footer adds one crawlable name line per page. The contact page no longer inherits the homepage OG object. Positioning wording changed in SEO surfaces only; visible copy is deliberately unchanged.
3. Entity graph — the Person JSON-LD gains a stable @id and ORCID in sameAs; new WebSite (all pages), ProfilePage (/about), and BreadcrumbList (case studies) blocks reference that @id.
4. Brand assets — favicon set (icon.svg + apple-icon.png) and a 1200×630 og.png built from the NH monogram, replacing a portrait photo declared with landscape dims. Both assets were reviewed and approved before merge. Regeneration script committed at scripts/generate-brand-assets.mjs.
5. Sitemap honesty — entries are url-only (lastModified used to stamp "now" on every build — a false freshness signal; Google ignores changeFrequency/priority). The robots route-handler folder became the idiomatic robots.ts. The site URL is single-sourced from src/lib/site.ts.
6. Search Console — conditional verification-token slot (an empty token emits no tag at all, and the test contract holds in both token states). docs/infra.md now records the out-of-repo domain/deploy state.

Verification

• 318/318 unit/integration tests (32 files); 24/24 Playwright e2e against a production build (zero flake, first run); lint 0 errors / 0 warnings; Prettier clean.
• New e2e/seo.spec.ts asserts at the rendered layer — redirect statuses, the exact homepage title, canonicals (root + child page), footer text, favicon links, og.png resolving 200, and per-page JSON-LD types — because the homepage-title bug proved object-level tests can be green while the resolved output is wrong.

Post-merge checklist (owner)

1. Vercel → Settings → Domains: make hackimi.dev (apex) the primary domain so www 308s to apex, matching every code signal. Fill the flip date in docs/infra.md.
2. Search Console: create the https://hackimi.dev URL-prefix property, paste the meta token into SITE_GOOGLE_SITE_VERIFICATION, submit /sitemap.xml, request indexing of /, /work, /projects.
3. LinkedIn: add hackimi.dev under website/contact info; confirm public-profile visibility.
4. GitHub profile: put https://hackimi.dev in the dedicated website field.
5. Move the ROADMAP.md row to Done with the ship date.

(No manual deploy step: merging to main deploys automatically via the CI-gated GitHub Actions job — see docs/infra.md.)

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Project	Deployment	Actions	Updated (UTC)
hackimi	Ready	Preview	Aug 9, 2026 2:37pm