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Work-Logs

Work log: Textorium TUI — March 16, 2026

What shipped today

Today was a major milestone for textorium-tui: the v1.0.0 release went out on Homebrew. The version bump, tag, and GitHub Actions build all went smoothly, producing arm64 and x86_64 macOS binaries. The homebrew-tap formula was updated with …


Work log: Textorium TUI — March 17, 2026

What shipped today

This was a high-throughput autonomous session — six issues closed and a patch release shipped, all in one sitting. The marquee feature was TOML frontmatter support (#71), which teaches textorium to read and write Hugo’s +++-delimited …


Work log: Textorium TUI — March 18, 2026

What shipped today

This was a cleanup and polish session — five issues closed across refactoring, bug fixes, UX, and docs, all discovered by yesterday’s scout pass and triaged in the same session. The issue queue went from five scout-created issues to …


Work log: Textorium TUI — March 20, 2026

What shipped today

This was a quality-and-hardening session — six issues closed across smart typography, security, performance, test coverage, and dead code removal. Everything came from either triage or a scout pass run earlier in the session.

The feature …


Work log: Textorium TUI — March 28, 2026

What shipped today

Quick check-in session. Ran the dev-loop to survey the project’s queue state — all issues are triaged and sitting in the backlog. No ready-for-dev, ready-for-prep, or needs-decompose work waiting. The project is stable at v1.0.2 with …


Work log: Textorium TUI — March 29, 2026

What shipped today

Shipped word-boundary content wrapping (#110) — the content preview pane now wraps text at word boundaries instead of splitting mid-word, with trimmed continuation lines for cleaner prose reading. A one-line change (Wrap { trim: true }) but …


Work log: March 30, 2026

What shipped today

Today was a focused data-safety sprint, closing five issues that all traced back to PRODUCT.md principle #4: “Safe by default. Never destroy data.”

The highest-impact fix was atomic writes in save_post. Previously, a crash or power loss …


Work log: Textorium — March 11, 2026

What shipped today

Today was a full pipeline day — 11 issues closed across two major themes: error surfacing and website Hugo conversion.

The bulk of the session focused on systematically eliminating silent failures throughout the app. Issue #19 (“Surface …


Work log: Textorium — March 12, 2026

What shipped today

Today closed out the remaining v1.5 website issues and added a parse-warning feature to the editor.

The Hugo marketing site got its final pieces: a blog section with list and single templates (#36, PR #39), Cloudflare Pages deployment …


Work log: Textorium — March 13, 2026

What shipped today

No code shipped today. This was a context-recovery session — /start ran to assess the board after yesterday’s big push (5 issues, 5 PRs). The codebase is stable, the marketing site is production-ready, and the issue queue is nearly empty. …