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Week 40 · 2026 · October 2, 2026

Civic Crypto (+2 more)

Leading this week: Civic Crypto. 3 new pieces on the site, plus 30 changes shipped under the hood. Curated and sent by a human; reply anytime, it reaches me.

Also shipped

  • Record the minted Zenodo DOI for stress
  • Stress column: proper nouns out of scope, doublets to a printed source, homographs counted in UberText
  • Apply: Play Store stills in JSX, a custom trailer design, and studio engine fixes
  • Zenodo workflow: offer the stress deposit
  • Apply: Synthetic-user UAT harness, and the friend redesign it pointed to
  • Civic Crypto: accuracy and hardening pass
  • Apply: In-place editing of resumes/letters, simpler friend navigation
  • Empire: Fold the handover into the repo and build the phase 2 engine tick
  • Ukrainian Frequency: thread 07, a word-stress column for all 12,000 lemmas
  • Civic Crypto: program two of the public research lab, with a clock-reading registration gate
  • Chrome batch two, part two: minimal and none modes, and the last public landings
  • Chrome batch two, part one: fifty public pages on the new header and footer
  • Homepage: The cover loop, a wordless picture of the work
  • Homepage: The /ua twin on the new chrome, with localized header and footer
  • Homepage: The chrome ledger, a root-layout gate, and the site index
  • Homepage: /hire on the new chrome, derived from the site identity
  • Homepage: The screening strip goes live
  • Homepage: The Listen row, the page read aloud in an honest browser voice
  • Studio: Re-film the gallery (film-all)
  • Homepage: The em-dash-free studio pipeline and the gated screening strip
  • Homepage: The earned subscribe row, and research attribution that survives
  • Agent visualization: MAST labels verified against the paper, Ukrainian index entry
  • Homepage: Run it yourself, proof one's text profiler on the visitor's device
  • Homepage: Hiring row, derived labels, --jl-* share card, and the gates behind them (front-door arc, PR 1)
  • Research No. 28: Eight Ways to See an Agent Think (eight live demos, loop view, review page)
  • DPF sign-in: a standing access code for the owner (db/013)
  • DPF admin for Greg: one band, Parts as the front door, the part as a full page, Site edits that render and edit in place
  • Blog: Restore the full feed at /blog, add to nav and homepage
  • DPF Site edits: Greg reads, marks up and approves the rebuilt pages on his own domain
  • Migrations ledger: mark 0026_validation_desk applied

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