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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.