Commits

Project activity for April 17, 2026:

dash-github-actions

2 commits

• Implemented ephemeral runner tracking to monitor short-lived CI/CD workers, enabling real-time visibility into their lifecycle and resource usage across the infrastructure.
• Added a dedicated dashboard section to visualize ephemeral runner states (e.g., active, idle, failed), improving operational awareness and troubleshooting efficiency.
• Resolved code review feedback to refine tracking logic—ensuring accurate state transitions, reducing false positives in health reporting, and aligning the implementation with existing monitoring patterns.

dash-ota

6 commits

• Migrated app storage and routing to bundle-ID-based slugs (e96213a), improving consistency and reliability by aligning directory structures with app identifiers—this avoids naming collisions and simplifies future scaling.
• Added full macOS .app bundle support to the OTA dashboard (e98a413), enabling macOS apps to be distributed and managed alongside iOS/Android via over-the-air channels.
• Fixed critical path and compatibility issues: corrected trailing-slash handling in /ota routes (ec8753b), resolved Info.plist path resolution within macOS app bundles (104c78c), and restored the deprecated ipaSize field (9bb7ac7) to maintain backward compatibility with older client integrations.
• Refined documentation and code quality in response to code review (99537ee), ensuring clarity and long-term maintainability of the new macOS support and slug migration logic.

package-paper-destruction

11 commits

• Context menu modernization: Switched the piece context menu between SwiftUI’s contextMenu(menuItems:preview:) and UIKit’s UIContextMenuInteraction, indicating a migration effort to align with platform-specific best practices or resolve compatibility issues.
• Peek-and-pop preview stability fixes: Addressed persistent UI glitches (notably a “shadow pop” artifact at peek preview dismissal) through iterative attempts—adjusting shadowPath, re-computing target.center relative to the window, applying contentShape outside .worldPosition, and leveraging UIPreviewTarget anchored to the window—ultimately stabilizing the preview presentation and dismissal behavior.
• Documentation and diagnostics: Added troubleshooting documentation for peek-shape rendering issues, reflecting a systematic debugging process where failed hypotheses (e.g., shadowPath-only fixes, preview-target anchoring) were tested, reverted, and refined until a working solution emerged.

shared-actions

2 commits

• Improved reliability and observability of workflow execution: Enhanced the Verify step with pre-change logging for better auditability, added explicit timeout handling to prevent hangs, enforced concurrency controls to avoid race conditions, and ensured the step always runs regardless of prior failures—addressing a critical gap in workflow robustness.
• Introduced manual runner dispatch capability: Added a new Switch Runners workflow that allows on-demand dispatch to different runner types (e.g., ubuntu-latest, self-hosted, or platform-specific runners), enabling flexible, ad-hoc test environment selection without code changes—critical for testing platform compatibility and managing capacity during high-demand periods.

shpool-resume

1 commit

• Enhanced session restoration flexibility by extending restore-sessions to accept a comma-separated list of agent names (in addition to a single agent or *), enabling targeted, batch restoration across multiple agents in a single command—improving operational efficiency for multi-agent environments.
• Strengthened input robustness through proper CSV parsing, error handling, and validation, ensuring malformed or empty agent lists fail gracefully with clear diagnostics.

swift-rss-s3-generator

14 commits

• Migration to modern dependency stack: Upgraded FeedKit from 9.x to 10.x to enable robust RSS 2.0 generation, resolving build and compatibility issues on Linux by replacing the built-in XMLParser well-formedness check with FeedKit’s own round-trip validation logic.
• Cloud-native ingestion architecture: Introduced the S3ObjectStore protocol (Phase 4) and concrete integration tests, alongside an ArticleLoader for S3-based article ingestion, enabling deployment in serverless environments (e.g., AWS Lambda), with the MockS3ObjectStore updated to use Mutex for cross-platform thread safety.
• Core data modeling & parsing: Replaced placeholder content with a well-defined Article model, added FrontmatterParser using Yams for structured metadata extraction, and wired the feedPath into Atom links to improve interoperability—addressing prior PR feedback on escaping and URL formatting.
• CI/CD reliability: Enhanced continuous integration with Dockerfile and workflow fixes, optimized disk usage for constrained VMs, and adopted shared GitHub Actions to reduce duplication and improve maintainability.
• Phased development: Followed a modular progression—from scaffold (Phase 1) → model (Phase 2) → RSS 2.0 generation (Phase 3)—culminating in cloud integration (Phase 4), ensuring test coverage, cross-platform stability, and adherence to community feedback throughout.

TartRunnerKit

2 commits

• Enabled safe VM shutdown via clean flag to prevent filesystem corruption during abrupt termination (e.g., testing, CI, or emergency stops), ensuring data integrity and stability in transient virtualized environments.
• Upgraded the Linux base VM disk size to 80 GB to accommodate larger workloads, future dependency growth, and support for development/debugging workflows that require more disk space (e.g., container images, build artifacts, or large datasets).

zedarmstrong.com

11 commits

• Dual-account chat UI overhaul: Implemented side-by-side interfaces for two distinct users—Zed (blue) and Erin (green)—with full sender attribution and left-aligned message alignment, along with a dedicated /logout endpoint and a new chat.zedarmstrong.com frontend for non-technical users to manage site updates.
• Security hardening & authentication flow: Replaced basic auth popups with a full login page, enforced authentication at the CloudFront edge via a Function, and resolved Lambda-related issues (e.g., missing WWW-Authenticate headers, remapped headers) to ensure secure, standards-compliant auth—while also patching additional security flaws identified in code review.
• Reliability & observability improvements: Added a SOCKS5 readiness check, increased Lambda timeout to 60s to accommodate slower downstream dependencies, and enforced strict response validation (rejecting non-2xx dispatcher responses), collision-resistant sort keys, and explicit S3 references to prevent ambiguous or erroneous lookups.
• Infrastructure & deployment updates: Migrated dispatcher traffic to use Tailscale Serve via https://<tailnet>.ts.net/hooks/github, deployed the Tailscale layer to the zedarmstrong account, and fixed cross-account Secrets Manager secret resolution to ensure seamless, secure inter-account communication.