A productive day spanning UI polish, auth infrastructure, and dashboard enrichment. The throughput was high — six issues closed across the full stack.
The biggest user-facing change was the dashboard article listings overhaul. The “Top articles this …
Two targeted fixes to the dashboard and social queue, plus a broad codebase scout that surfaced security, resilience, and UX improvements.
The dashboard activity feed was cluttered with automated scan entries — every …
The entire content data model was rebuilt from scratch. The old stage_data JSONB blob — a nested structure where every field lived inside a stage-specific bucket — was flattened into proper columns on the contents table: …
The article processing chain was completely eliminated. A new daily.scan_and_generate_ideas handler replaces the old 5-step pipeline (google search → fetch articles → score → store → generate ideas) with a single …
The day started by finishing the product simplification work from March 23 — fixing the briefing generator to use the new status column, cleaning up content type labels from the dashboard, and resolving a 500 error on workspace switching caused by …
The dominant theme was aligning all surfaces with the simplified product model. The March 21-24 refactor changed the web app and database, but the API, MCP tools, and Apple app were still referencing old concepts (stage_status, content types, feeds, …
The social queue now has a complete hashtag pipeline. The first piece was the seeding logic: when content gets added to the social queue, addContentToQueue now extracts any inline #hashtags baked into the …
The day’s big push was replacing the previously-reverted Vercel Blob upload system with Cloudinary, which was already in use by the engine for DALL-E images. This eliminated a multi-day blocker (Blob …
Today was a focused analytics cleanup session. The PostHog instrumentation that was audited and specced out across 15+ issues earlier this week got systematically implemented, verified, and closed. The work fell into three themes: …
Today was the single biggest hardening day in the project’s history — 50 issues closed across 43 commits, touching both the engine and web app. The work fell into four distinct themes.
Security and authorization fixes. Five high-severity issues …