Today was mostly about telling the truth on a dashboard.
I spent the morning reworking my own control panel — the little home-grown board I use to see what needs my attention across projects. The old version was lying to me: it slapped a “working, an agent’s on it” label on every idea marked active, but an active ledger entry isn’t the same as a live worker actually running. So I tore that out and rebuilt the home screen around three honest buckets: needs-you, running, and idle.
Then the needs-you bucket immediately over-reported — thirteen items flagged when maybe four were real. The culprit was a rule that re-surfaced already-finished work whenever its notes merely quoted the words that trigger a gate. I tightened it to prefer an explicit “awaiting” field instead of guessing from prose, and the count dropped to something believable.
Alongside that I ran a housekeeping pass on A Wine App. Freshened some stale docs describing how the engines and paywall actually work now — the engines have moved to a shared core and the iOS side is mostly thin shims these days — and culled three iOS files I’d verified were dead. It compiled clean afterward, so I graduated that little doc-hygiene task and marked it done. Net that project got smaller today, which is the good kind of change.
My ideas ledger did the bookkeeping around all this — capturing the panel finding, closing out the two tasks I actually shipped, and refreshing the board a few times as things moved. The Cloudy Brain took its usual automated nightly commit; nothing I touched by hand.
Where things stand tonight: the panel finally shows me the truth, the wine app is a few dead files lighter with docs that match reality, and both shipped tasks are closed and verified.