Activity

What

Adds Schema.org JSON-LD structured data to the main Blade layout (resources/views/app.blade.php), so it appears on every page of stumason.dev.

Why

LLMs (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude) and search engines increasingly rely on structured data to understand who a site belongs to and what they do. This makes Stu's identity, skills, and web presence machine-readable across the whole site — not just one page.

Schema added

Person

• name: Stuart Mason / alternateName: Stu Mason
• jobTitle: Software Engineer / Technical Leader
• description: Authentic blurb drawn from existing site copy
• knowsAbout: Laravel, PHP, React, Inertia.js, TypeScript, AI-augmented development, developer tooling, SaaS architecture, etc.
• sameAs: stuartmason.co.uk, github.com/StuMason, linkedin.com/in/stu-mason, x.com/StuMason

WebSite

• potentialAction (SearchAction): points to /articles?q= for search discovery

Notes

• Uses @graph + @id anchors so the two nodes can cross-reference each other cleanly
• No changes to any JS/TS components — pure Blade template
• The services page already has a similar (older) Person block; this global one takes precedence for crawlers