From e38e2bb68e606eebcfb82daa92b421ff26cd8831 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: davegilligan <davegilligan73@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 00:54:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Remove edition console, route tape, frontline ticker, and
 venture-desk header

- Delete EditionConsole React component and its cover-console wrapper
- Delete route-tape section (city stops list)
- Delete frontline ticker section (field notes)
- Delete venture-desk section-header (redundant description text)
- Clean up unused imports (EditionConsole, routeStops, fieldNotes)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 src/pages/index.astro | 30 ------------------------------
 1 file changed, 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/pages/index.astro b/src/pages/index.astro
index 780f5e8..61a84ae 100644
--- a/src/pages/index.astro
+++ b/src/pages/index.astro
@@ -1,18 +1,15 @@
 ---
 import SectionCard from "../components/SectionCard.astro";
-import EditionConsole from "../components/EditionConsole.jsx";
 import LocaleCopy from "../components/LocaleCopy.astro";
 import {
   aiLabCapabilities,
   aiLabSources,
   collageImages,
-  routeStops,
   ventureDesk,
   ventureSignals,
 } from "../data/profile";
 import {
   editorialPromises,
-  fieldNotes,
   getSectionHref,
   hero,
   launchSections,
@@ -71,38 +68,11 @@ const projects = launchSections.find((section) => section.slug === "projects");
             ))}
           </div>
 
-          <div class="panel cover-console">
-            <EditionConsole client:load />
-          </div>
         </aside>
       </div>
     </section>
 
-    <section class="container route-tape">
-      {routeStops.map((stop) => (
-        <span>
-          <strong>{stop.place}</strong>
-          <em><LocaleCopy copy={stop.note} /></em>
-        </span>
-      ))}
-    </section>
-
-    <section class="container frontline">
-      {fieldNotes.en.map((_, i) => (
-        <span><LocaleCopy copy={{ en: fieldNotes.en[i], fr: fieldNotes.fr[i], nb: fieldNotes.nb[i] }} /></span>
-      ))}
-    </section>
-
     <section id="venture-desk" class="container venture-desk">
-      <div class="section-header section-header--tight">
-        <div class="section-header__title">Four Desks, One Signature</div>
-        <div class="section-header__meta">
-          This front page is not a brochure. It is the running file on the real occupations:
-          private AI, field consulting, jazz-adjacent live products, advocacy, and the long
-          European afterglow of the schools.
-        </div>
-      </div>
-
       <div class="venture-desk__grid">
         {ventureDesk.map((venture) => (
           <article class="panel venture-story">