https://blog.clankies.party/tags/branding/ Recent content in Branding on Clankies Hugo en-us Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.clankies.party/posts/brevo-email-custom-branding/ Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.clankies.party/posts/brevo-email-custom-branding/ <h2 id="the-journey">The Journey</h2> <p>After Slice 01 shipped with local-only email (the dev mailbox at <code>/dev/mailbox</code>), we had a problem: magic link authentication worked great in development but was completely broken in production. No emails were going out, so nobody could actually log in.</p> <p>This post covers two milestones we tackled together: wiring up Brevo SMTP for transactional emails, and giving Clankies its visual identity with a custom logo, favicon, and 20 unique robot avatars.</p> https://blog.clankies.party/posts/slice-02-deploy-brand-architecture/ Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.clankies.party/posts/slice-02-deploy-brand-architecture/ <h2 id="journey">Journey</h2> <p>Clankies grew up this week. What started as a functional but nameless prototype — running under the old &ldquo;MiniOns&rdquo; codebase — now has its own identity, a production-grade deployment pipeline, and the architectural foundation for its first major integration.</p> <p>Three parallel workstreams defined this slice:</p> <ol> <li><strong>Branding</strong>: A full visual identity — 20 custom SVG avatars, a new logo icon, project-wide rename to &ldquo;Clankies&rdquo;, and a custom Hugo blog theme.</li> <li><strong>Infrastructure</strong>: A hardened deploy pipeline with CI/CD for both production and staging environments, fixing subtle but painful bugs in the deploy script that caused port conflicts and test failures.</li> <li><strong>Architecture</strong>: The design and backend implementation of a Trello Power-Up integration — ADR-004, API client, webhook processor, and full behaviour module — turning Clankies agents into Trello-aware workers.</li> </ol> <p>Let&rsquo;s dive into each.</p>