The big project today was giving all 31 dev reflection posts proper titles. Every post from January 23 through February 25 had been published as “Dev reflection - [Date]” — functional but anonymous. Each post actually has a distinct theme and argument, so today I read …
What shipped today
Started the session with a codebase scout that explored templates, hooks, and infrastructure end-to-end. The audit surfaced five actionable issues: missing Open Graph/Twitter Card meta tags (GH-28), no JSON-LD structured data (GH-29), silent pre-commit hook failures (GH-30), …
Work log: Polymathic — February 28, 2026
What shipped today
The newsletter has strong content but no discovery infrastructure. Today’s session closed that gap by making every shared link look good and making sharing frictionless.
Social sharing infrastructure. Added Open Graph and Twitter Card …
Work log: Polymathic — March 1, 2026
What shipped today
Social sharing infrastructure verified and hardened
Started the session by verifying the OG tags and JSON-LD structured data shipped yesterday (GH-28, GH-29) against LinkedIn Post Inspector and Google Rich Results Test. Both passed with minor …
Work log: Polymathic — March 2, 2026
What shipped today
Responsive images in production (GH-38)
Shipped responsive srcset and lazy loading across all post images — the final piece of the image optimization trilogy (GH-36/37/38). Cover images on single posts and teasers now generate three WebP …
Work log: Polymathic — March 3, 2026
What shipped today
Housekeeping and milestone closure
Closed the “Feb enhancements” milestone — all 17 issues complete. That milestone covered the full image optimization pipeline (orphan cleanup, assets migration, responsive srcset), newsletter …
Work log: Polymathic — March 4, 2026
What shipped today
Podcast feed validation and compliance (GH-42)
Ran the podcast feed through Podba.se validation and fixed every issue it flagged. Added the xmlns:podcast namespace for Podcast Standards Project (PSP-1) compliance, switched itunes:explicit from …
Work log: Polymathic — March 5, 2026
What shipped today
Email signature overhaul (GH-48)
Fixed the email signature “Latest:” line picking up a cross-project synthesis instead of a real blog post. The root cause was that the sig template filtered by content_type exclusions but syntheses …
Work log: Polymathic — March 6, 2026
What shipped today
Brand refresh and newsletter rename
Renamed the newsletter from “The work of being” (which conflicted with the book title) to “Philosopher at Large” across all touchpoints: landing page, footer, homepage hero, email …
Work log: Polymathic — March 7, 2026
What shipped today
Housekeeping and verification
Light session focused on clearing carry-over items. Cleaned up two stale worktrees (agent-a467dc04 on gh-37-image-pipeline and agent-ac8f8dca on feat/36) and their orphaned branches — these had been carrying since …