Week 044 — Dashboard Ships
The dashboard goes from idea to working in a week — item counts by status, action buttons, notification preview, icons — plus two bugs discovered during testing.
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Week 043 — QR Code, CSS Variables, and a Dashboard Idea
A Grok-assisted refactor breaks QR code assignment, photo upload breaks again, CSS gets structure for the first time, and an idea for a dashboard surfaces mid-week.
Week 042 — Stripe Was Silently Broken
Delete item ships. Then the Stripe subscription integration turns out to have been silently failing for months — a 300 redirect, a missing customer ID, and a session variable that lost its value on the way back from Stripe.
Week 041 — Deleting Items
The DELETE item functionality turns out to hinge on a PHP request method detection issue, and getting the switch statement to see it correctly.
Week 040 — Cleaning Up the Header
The notification badge lands in the header, a siteURL function gets replaced with a constant, image saves are fixed again, and a handful of profile page bugs get cleared.