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Week 29 · 2026 · September 19, 2026

Much Cleaner (+11 more)

Leading this week: Much Cleaner. 12 new pieces on the site, plus 30 changes shipped under the hood. The week leaned on lightning. Curated and sent by a human; reply anytime, it reaches me.

New on the site

Also shipped

  • Add /sadie — a tap-first "get to know you" quest surface
  • Workshop: Let any player configure their real bench + garage in-app
  • Lightning: Getting-started on-ramp + de-jargon for a general audience
  • Railway Deployment #6a3478 fix: pin Node 20 in .nvmrc
  • Workshop: Invert the meta-game — craft to grow the shop, not perfect a set
  • Docs: Scope Tinker fine-tune for /voice + corpus census
  • Vocab-test v2: fix mobile stat-grid stacking, chart a11y, and quiz re-renders
  • Workshop: Scaffold the physical bench (Pi, cameras, LCD, speakers, sensors)
  • Lightning: Project from your actual study pace, not just the slider
  • Lightning: Add a copy-to-clipboard progress share card
  • Lightning: Export the flashcard deck for Anki
  • Lightning: Make new-cards-per-session configurable in Flashcards
  • Lightning: Resume the last-visited tab on a bare visit
  • Lightning: Add a study-activity calendar heatmap to Progress
  • Lightning: Add a mastery heatmap to the alphabet Chart
  • Lightning: Show an SRS review forecast on the Flashcards tab
  • Lightning: Add a Recall (production) mode to the alphabet trainer
  • Blog + hire: buyer-reframe the essay, and make it echo the offer
  • Lightning: Back up and restore all progress as a JSON file
  • Lightning: Add a bring-your-own-text C-test under a Measure tab
  • Claude/workshop progression system yfj6u8
  • Blog: Bump agentic-workflow-service-research _reviewedAt so the seed applies
  • Lightning: Add a daily-practice coach to the Progress tab
  • Lightning: An in-browser yes/no vocabulary-size test
  • Blog: Relocate author images to public/images + wire portrait into the About block
  • Blog: V2 of "Would anyone pay for the harness?" with interactive harness demos
  • Lightning: Make the Roadmap a trackable 12-month plan
  • Lightning: Admin site button to generate frequency-deck audio in batches
  • Lightning: Ship the real GRAC/BRUK build-your-own frequency-lemma deck
  • Ship Ukrainian Frequency thread 05: the vocabulary-size self-test

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