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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

Work-Logs

2026-03-19 — Prakta

What shipped today

Production deployment is live at www.prakta.io. The bulk of today’s session was spent polishing the last mile: branded email templates, admin features, blog integration, and getting the production environment running.

Production deployment. The main …


2026-03-20 — Prakta

What shipped today

Massive session — 27 issues shipped, a complete product vision pivot, and the foundation for the serve-don’t-show model laid end to end.

UX pivot: “serve, don’t show.” The biggest outcome wasn’t code — it was the brainstorm that …


2026-03-22 — Serve experience end-to-end + hardening

What shipped

The serve-don’t-show experience is now end-to-end functional. The session started with #152 (serve UI) — rewriting /today as a four-state machine: energy check-in → serve one chunk → work with timer → feedback → next chunk or …


2026-03-23 — Scout, triage, and hardening sweep

What shipped

A full scout-triage-execute cycle cleared 10 issues in a single session — 5 from the previous day’s hardening wave (#197-#201) and 5 new issues discovered and resolved by today’s scout run (#207-#211).

The scout run explored …


2026-03-24 — Feature gaps, dead code cleanup, and accessibility sweep

What shipped

Two scout-triage-execute cycles ran back to back. The first cleared 5 issues from the previous day’s scout (#207-#211), and the second scouted fresh, triaged, and executed 4 more issues (#217-#221) plus …


2026-03-25 — No activity

No code changes or issues closed. The session was idle between the 2026-03-24 rollover and this day boundary.

Carry-over

  • #86 — Replace in-memory rate limiter with persistent solution (backlog)
  • #101 — Branded emails (blocked)
  • #108 — BCC founder on transactional emails …


2026-03-31 — CI fixes, security audit, scout run

First session in 6 days. The March 23-24 burst shipped 20+ PRs (accessibility, keyboard navigation, Maya sidebar improvements) but CI had been failing since then and no production deploy happened.

Fixed two things blocking CI: ESLint’s …


Work log — 2026-04-01

What shipped today

A small but important hardening fix landed today. The /api/learn and /api/weekly routes were both missing top-level try/catch blocks, meaning any unhandled promise rejection would crash the request with a bare 500 and no useful error information. Both routes …


Work log — 2026-04-04

What shipped today

The biggest session in Prakta’s history — 11 issues closed in a single day, nearly all security hardening and error-handling improvements. The codebase went from having several unvalidated API inputs and unprotected database operations to having …


Work log: Scholexis — March 11, 2026

What shipped today

The Next.js port foundation is now complete. Four issues shipped in a single session, taking Scholexis from an empty monorepo structure to a fully scaffolded three-tier application with a complete database schema.

Application scaffolding. Built …