Work log: Textorium — March 15, 2026
What shipped today
No code shipped. This was a context-recovery session — /start confirmed the board state is unchanged since March 13. The codebase is stable and the issue queue remains at one item.
Completed
(None — context recovery only)
Release progress
v1.5: 17 closed / 1 open. #13 (dynamic email signature with latest blog post) remains the sole blocker, labeled needs-clarification.
Carry-over
- #13 — Dynamic email signature with latest blog post.
needs-clarification. Requirements referencepolymathic-h GH-2. Has been in this state since March 12.
Risks
- #13 has been in
needs-clarificationfor three days. If this issue doesn’t belong in the Textorium repo (it may be a polymathic-h concern), it should be moved or closed to unblock the v1.5 milestone.
Flags and watch-outs
- Marketing site still hasn’t had a production visual QA pass — dark mode, 404, OG tags, blog section all shipped March 12 without browser verification.
- Parse warning tooltip uses
.help()with no iPadOS equivalent (future consideration).
Next session
- Decide on #13 — either clarify requirements and execute, or move it out of v1.5 if it’s a polymathic-h concern. This has been stalled for three sessions.
- Once #13 is resolved,
/milestone close v1.5. - Visual QA of textorium.app in production.
- Run
/scoutto fill the backlog — the board will be empty after v1.5 closes.
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