Week 28 · 2026 · July 6, 2026
This week on jakelawrence.xyz — 2026-W28
30 changes landed this week. Here's what actually shipped — written from the merge log, sent by a human.
Shipped
- apply: s6-apply finding — daily-digest owner is UNSET in Actions (set one secret) (#1885)
- Upcycle: record the s7-upcycle decision (Nextdoor/FB dropped until partner API) (#1884)
- GraphMy: throttle down purchases, keep the free tier (S5 decision) (#1883)
- Backup verify round 4: restore smoke tolerates out-of-scope object errors (#1882)
- BACKUP-DR Q1 facts + backup-verify rounds 3 & 4 (pg_wrapper bypass, smoke tolerance) (#1881)
- Backup verify round 2: pgdg repo so pg_dump 17 actually installs (#1880)
- Backup verify: bump to Postgres 17 client + restore container (#1879)
- Register HEDDLE_SITE_URL as managed synced config + telegram-cron fallback (#1878)
- Hackathon board v8–v12: smoke tests, X-ray, blocked state, report, kickoff, live ground truth (#1877)
- Hackathon board v7: file recap to changelog draft, deploy widget, auto-check (#1876)
- Hackathon board v6: Telegram milestone pings, Up Next strip, wake lock (#1875)
- Hackathon board v5: cross-device sync, pace projection, more probes (#1874)
- Hackathon board v2 + v3 + v4: self-verifying probes, recap, burn-down chart (#1873)
- Add /hackathon: admin-only manual-integrations burn-down board (#1872)
- Manual-integrations hackathon plan — 2026-07-04 (#1871)
- Blog: the review loop, explained with diagrams (#1870)
- Rate-limit coverage audit: every write endpoint limited, gated, verified, or ledgered (#1869)
- blog: the episode-production-line build log, with three inline visuals (#1868)
- Data retention map + weekly third-party-data sweep (#1867)
- Measure the human gate: per-rail pending metrics, /platform/gates, draft expiry (#1866)
- legibility: W1 Phase 2 — the Descript edit node + the LLM QA rung (#1865)
- Seed-time publish gate for the blog seeder (#1864)
- legibility: W1 Phase 1 — the in-house episode pipeline + player captions (#1863)
- Capabilities chapter 08: security, privacy, and resilience (#1862)
- Weekly backup verification workflow + disaster-recovery runbook (#1861)
- docs: execute W1 Phase 0 — verify-first findings, gate PASS on the Descript path (#1860)
- AI spend ledger, daily digest, /platform card, and monthly budget brake (#1859)
- docs: answer the video-pipeline open questions + W1 phase-gated PRD (#1858)
- docs: video-pipeline-v2 brainstorm (repo-verified) + /sora historical note (#1857)
- Week-1 hardening: automerge guard extension, capabilities drift gate, REC-8 doc fixes (#1856)
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