2026-02-19 — 🚜 AssetTrack: Milestone 10 — Full Lifecycle Replacement
TL;DR: Milestone 10 completes the real-world hardware lifecycle. Assets can now be retired and replaced in-place through an atomic swap workflow that preserv...
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2026-02-18 — 🚜 AssetTrack: Milestone 9 — Governance Layer Complete
TL;DR: Milestone 9 completed the administrative governance layer of AssetTrack. The system now supports controlled slot assignment, slot movement, forced cor...
2026-02-17 — 🚜 AssetTrack: From Atomic Custody to Operational Control
TL;DR: Milestone 8 completed AssetTrack’s atomic custody engine. Milestone 9 added admin correction tools. The system now enforces integrity and can fix real...
2026-02-16 — 🚜 AssetTrack: Locking in the Slot Integrity Layer
TL;DR: Milestone 7 is complete. AssetTrack now has a real slot model with atomic movement, hard-stop integrity, and zero UI drift. The foundation is solid.
2026-02-16 — 🚜 AssetTrack: From Slots to Atomic Custody
TL;DR: Milestone 7 gave AssetTrack a physical slot model. Milestone 8 adds atomic custody transitions — assets now move from STORAGE to IN_CUSTODY safely, tr...
2026-02-07 — 🚜 AssetTrack: Milestone 6 — Operational Hardening
TL;DR: I closed Milestone 6 by making AssetTrack easier to run, easier to operate, and easier to trust: deployment docs, scanner expectations, a container se...
2026-02-07 — 🚜 AssetTrack: Here’s What’s Left
TL;DR: AssetTrack is now operable and documented. What’s left is refinement: smoother intake UX, clearer per-scan context, and a few “small” improvements tha...
2026-02-06 — 🚜 AssetTrack: Pivot to Keyboard Wedge Intake
TL;DR: I pivoted AssetTrack’s scanner intake from vendor-dependent batch downloads to a fully portable, containerized keyboard-wedge workflow. The core inges...
2026-02-06 — 🚜 AssetTrack: Milestone 4 — Design Pivot and Course Correction
TL;DR: Milestone 4 didn’t go the way I planned. I made an early design assumption that didn’t hold up, had to rewrite the milestone, add new issues, and work...
🚜 AssetTrack — Milestone 3: Atomic Batch Ingest
TL;DR: AssetTrack can now safely ingest offline barcode scans. Batches are validated first, then committed atomically — everything succeeds, or nothing does.
2026-02-02 — 🚜 AssetTrack: Milestone 3 Validation Done, CI Paused
TL;DR: Milestone 3’s validation and preview work is complete and ready to merge; GitHub Actions is the only thing standing between the code and main.
2026-01-30 — 🚜 AssetTrack: State, Audit, and Doing It the Hard Way
TL;DR: Milestone 2 locked down asset state transitions and audit logging so nothing changes silently, nothing disappears, and every action leaves a trail.
2026-01-28 — 🚜 AssetTrack: Foundations and the Core Asset Model
TL;DR: Closed Milestone 0 and Milestone 1 by stabilizing the project foundations and delivering a clean, code-only core asset model with disciplined CRUD hel...
2026-01-26 — 🪶Closing the Loop: Slot-Based Validation in PlumaFill
TL;DR: PlumaFill can now reason about correctness at the word level. Each slot knows whether it’s incomplete, incorrect, or correct—and the puzzle can report...
2026-01-25 — 🪶 PlumaFill: From Proof-of-Fun to Real Puzzle Logic
TL;DR: In one long, productive day, PlumaFill graduated from “this feels playable” to “this actually understands puzzles.”
2026-01-18 — 🪶 PlumaFill: Milestone 1 — Closed
TL;DR: Milestone 1 is complete, Proof-of-Fun is locked, and the project is ready for real puzzle logic.
2026-01-17 — 🪶 PlumaFill: Milestone 1 — Through Issue 1-5
TL;DR: The demo grid is fully interactive, navigable, and usable without instructions.
2026-01-13 — 🪶 PlumaFill: Milestone 0 — A Clean Start
TL;DR: PlumaFill boots in the iOS simulator, Git is clean, and I’ve got a baseline I can trust.
2026-01-10 — Production Docker Boot
TL;DR Built and successfully booted a real production Docker image for HumanityPro. Fixed several production-only failures, verified HTML rendering in a cont...
2026-01-10 — Resetting the Path to Launch
TL;DR I took five days away from coding to prioritize family time, then came back to do a full project review. The result was a deliberate reset of milestone...
2026-01-05 — HumanityPro at 75%: What Building an Honest Admin Taught Me
TL;DR The biggest win so far wasn’t a feature — it was making the admin UI stop lying. By stripping write actions, dead links, and fake affordances, the admi...
2026-01-03 — Making the Admin Honest
TL;DR Milestone 5 is mostly complete. The admin UI is now honest, read-only, and resilient — with one small follow-on issue (5-2) remaining to finish the mil...
2026-01-03 — Closing Milestone 4: The Style System Extraction (aka The Unsexy Work That Matters)
TL;DR Milestone 4 was about removing hidden fragility. No new features. No flashy UI. Just pulling style and JavaScript decisions out of random places and pu...
2026-01-02 — CI Hygiene, Native Gems, and Making Builds Boring Again
TL;DR CI kept breaking in ways that felt random but weren’t. The root cause was native gem platform resolution on Ubuntu. I fixed it by taking control of Bun...
2026-01-01 — Closing Out Issue 4-11 Cleanly
TL;DR Kicked off the year by closing another small but important dependency update. Issue 4-11 continues to move forward with clean, low-risk upgrades and a ...
2025-12-31-a — When the Branch List Got Gross (and Why Cleaning It Mattered)
TL;DR I hit a point where my GitHub branch list felt gross. Not broken — just messy enough that I couldn’t trust it anymore.
2025-12-30 — Cleaning Up the Admin Layout Contract
TL;DR I removed standalone HTML boilerplate from admin views so they all rely on the shared admin layout. No redesigns, no behavior changes — just fewer foot...
2025-12-29 — Making Admin Tools Feel Intentional
TL;DR: Finished polishing the admin experience by fixing a subtle UX gap. The Pending Coach Approvals workflow worked, but wasn’t obvious. A small, intention...
2025-12-28 — Pulling Admin Styles Out of Views (Without Breaking Everything)
TL;DR: I moved admin dashboard styles out of individual views and into one shared stylesheet. Nothing was redesigned — this just makes the admin UI safer to ...
2025-12-22-a Milestone 3 Complete — Making HumanityPro Easier to Understand (2025-12-23)
Milestone 3 Complete — Making HumanityPro Easier to Understand (2025-12-23)
2025-12-22 - Locking Down Admin Pages with Smoke Tests (Milestone 2)
Locking Down Admin Pages with Smoke Tests (Milestone 2)