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Work-Logs

Work log: Phantasmagoria — March 29, 2026

What shipped today

The session focused on two themes: hardening the test suite and implementing batch tech deduplication across the entire generation pipeline.

Test coverage expansion. The test count jumped from 385 to 451 — a net gain of 66 tests across 5 …


Work log: Phantasmagoria — March 30, 2026

What shipped today

A full-spectrum scout run identified 30+ findings across error-handling, security, dead code, test coverage, feature gaps, dependency health, and risk management. The session was primarily diagnostic — understanding the codebase’s …


Work log: Phantasmagoria — April 1, 2026

What shipped today

Today’s session was a tidy execution of the two cleanest items from the March 30 carry-over queue — both ready-for-dev, both quick wins that leave the codebase measurably cleaner.

Dead code elimination. The scout audit had identified …


Work log — 2026-04-04

What shipped today

Monorepo test suite repaired. A second session audited the full monorepo structure after the migration and found that all 27 root test files had stale import paths — scripts.phmg.* and scripts.helpers.* references that broke when the AI pipeline moved to …


What shipped today

Major content and theme cleanup session. Converted all 375+ blog post titles from Title Case to sentence case using a deterministic Python script, fixed smart quotes throughout, and resolved the multi-line H1 line-height issue where md:text-5xl was overriding with line-height: 1 …


What shipped today

Shipped newsletter edition 9 — “Universities missed the window to own AI literacy.” The essay came over from authexis, got prepped with newsletter frontmatter, then went through five rounds of editing and test emails before going to the full subscriber list via Brevo …


What shipped today

Planning session only — no code shipped. Ran /start to review yesterday’s carry-over and the current queue. The session was a quick check-in with no new work started.

Completed

  • None

Carry-over

  • GH-8: Product blog syndicated content separate from main feed (parked) …


What shipped today

Wrote newsletter edition 10 — “The bottleneck moved” — adapted from the Feb 22 daily reflection, which explored what happens when AI execution outpaces human specification capacity. The reflection was strong enough to recast as a proper essay, a newsletter, and a …


What shipped today

  • 3636d86 Newsletter edition 10 — The bottleneck moved

Completed

  • Newsletter edition 10 — The bottleneck moved

Carry-over

  • (none)

Risks

  • (none)

Next session

  • (auto-generated from pipeline activity)


What shipped today

  • 815ac1b Add dev reflection podcast for 2026-02-24
  • a430c04 Publish 2026-02-24: synthesis for 2026-02-24, 4 work logs
  • 5f7bba4 Auto-generate work log for 2026-02-24

Completed

  • Add dev reflection podcast for 2026-02-24
  • Publish 2026-02-24: synthesis for 2026-02-24, 4 work logs …