"Week 080 — Dusting Off the Deploy Runbook"
"Launch prep starts for real, the Found Page gets a serious refactor, and I rediscover that Apache doesn't reload itself."
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Week 079 — Spot the Bug
"JS migrates to the partials, state transitions come alive, and a bug that wasn't about logic at all — just order."
Building srchParty to Stay Free — And How I Plan to Keep It That Way
"srchParty's commitment to keeping the platform free for all users, and the optional paid features — stickers, promotions, and memberships — that make it sustainable."
Week 078 — Item Page Partials
The item page is redesigned around state-driven partials. Each state (safe, lost, found) gets its own PHP partial for the detail panel. The segment button logic is mostly working; the state detail panels are next.
Week 077 — Desktop Layout and Found Page Fixes
The desktop layout gets redesigned with a fixed sidebar. Found item map and image were broken and are fixed. timestampFound was never being recorded — now it is. The lost and found panel visibility logic still isn't right.