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Social cards in pure Rust: no headless Chrome

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Founder, Dragon Fractal · ex-AWS engineer

Cloud Cost Analyzer (CCA) lets you share a read-only scan as a link. Someone drops that link in Slack or on LinkedIn, and instead of a bare URL I wanted it to unfurl into a proper card: the brand mark, the monthly savings we found, the number of findings.

That was two separate problems. Figuring them out took me somewhere I didn't expect, because neither one wanted a headless browser, but both needed a card. One of them even ate an afternoon because the fonts wouldn't cooperate. Here's the whole thing.