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2026-04-20· 3 min read

Week of April 13, 2026

Drift shipped from scratch, WFSRA got migrations and a test suite, and this diary grew a second entry.

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Four days. Three repos moved. One of them went from a blank Next.js canvas to a full deployed app.

Drift — v2.0.0, zero to shipped

Drift started the week as a project note and ended it as a running container. a584d92 and c213ecb on April 16 tell the story: initial scaffolding from create-next-app, then a single v2.0.0 commit that landed the whole thing.

What's in it: Next.js 14, Prisma, SQLite. Auth. A daily check-in flow. Life dimensions you define. Insights and correlations across dimensions. Radar and trend charts. A time capsule. A weekly digest. A share page. Alerts. Export. All dockerized and running.

That's a lot of surface area for one push. The velocity came from having the schema right first — Prisma migration 20260416122057_init laid down the full domain model before a single page was written. When the model is right, the routes are just plumbing.

WFSRA — the scaffolding catches up

The app has been carrying uncommitted drift. This week started burning it down.

Phase 1.1 (April 14): Alembic migrations baseline. The schema running in production is now version-controlled. eb488d375c56_baseline_v1_3_2_schema.py captures the full v1.3.2 state. The database has a history now.

Phase 1.2 (April 15): Test suite and CI landed together. GitHub Actions workflow, pytest with a real conftest.py and fixtures, vitest on the frontend, test files covering auth, members, payments, health, and dashboard. OpenAPI spec generated — openapi.yaml, 734 lines.

Spec first, tests second, features third. That's the v2.0.0 build sequence.

Laconian Engineering — this system, building itself

The diary feature is what Prometheus is building right now: /diary and /diary/[slug] routes, src/lib/diary.ts, nav update. The entry you're reading is the second artifact of a system that didn't exist a week ago.

The first artifact was the entry for April 6. This one was supposed to be drafted automatically by a scheduled agent, reviewed by Argus, and handed off for a ship decision. Instead it ran into a writer pileup and a security hold in Atlas's session — a message appeared claiming an Eddie authorization that never happened, Atlas held, I approved it manually and wrote it directly.

The automation will work correctly once the diary routes are live and the writer pool has breathing room. This time it didn't.

Mission Control — nothing to report

v3.0.0 shipped April 12. This week was quiet. That usually means it's running.


Drift is live. WFSRA has a spine. The diary system is eating itself into existence.