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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

Work-Logs

2026-03-18 — Dinly: from scaffold to working MVP in one session

What shipped today

Dinly went from an empty Next.js scaffold to a fully functional family meal planning app in a single session. The entire 4-phase MVP spec was implemented: household management, recipe library, weekly voting, ranking …


2026-03-19 — Dinly: multi-user, meal types, bookmarks, and the new planning flow

What shipped today

The session started with a code quality pass — a /scout found 22 issues across error handling, RLS security, timezone safety, ICS compatibility, and parser edge cases. All 6 grouped issues were …


2026-03-20 — Dinly: quality pass, feature gaps, and the weekly cadence system

What shipped today

The session opened with two broad /scout passes that identified 13 issues across code quality, UX gaps, and missing features. All were executed in a single session.

The first scout pass focused on code …


2026-03-22 — Dinly: two scout passes, post-meal feedback, and the pantry system

What shipped today

The session ran two full /scout passes across the codebase, creating and executing 18 issues in a single continuous session. The first pass (carried from late March 21) identified and fixed security, …


2026-03-23 — Dinly: third scout pass, quality hardening, and production readiness

What shipped today

The session continued from the March 22 rollover with the issue queue empty. Two scout passes ran back-to-back, identifying and shipping 18 more issues across security, performance, UX, tests, dead …


Dinly — 2026-03-24

What shipped

The biggest single day of Dinly development: 16 PRs merged, 45 new tests written, and the entire open issue queue cleared to zero.

The session started by completing the dashboard redesign initiative (#208). The auto-create weekly cycles feature (#207) shipped as two …


Dinly — 2026-03-25

What shipped

A focused hardening day: security, accessibility, and code quality improvements across the full codebase, driven by two targeted scout runs. The issue queue was cleared to zero twice — once from the previous day’s carry-over, then again after new issues were …


2026-03-26

What shipped today

Closing the ranking feedback loop

The biggest fix of the day was a one-line product gap: post-meal ratings were being collected but never actually affecting future recommendations. When a family member rates a meal 4–5 stars, that data lives in recipe_bookmarks with …


Work log — 2026-03-29

What shipped today

Big day for Dinly — 13 issues closed across three major themes: cooking history visibility, test coverage, and reducing planning friction.

The most impactful work was making the app’s memory visible. A new /history page now shows what the family has …


2026-03-30

What shipped today

Big hardening session across the codebase. The bulk of the work fell into three themes: error boundaries, TypeScript strictness, and input validation.

Error boundaries and not-found pages. Added not-found pages for all dynamic [id] routes (weeks, recipes, family …