Personal HQ
Shipped20 shared-repo PRs
Launched the private suite entry point, authenticated Career artifacts, public Progress, and one typed attention register.
Build log
Ian's progress
Public outcomes. Private details intentionally omitted.
First seven days · July 11–17
Week one, in evidence
The suite began with Finance and Fitness on July 11. This snapshot combines the four GitHub-backed application repositories with reviewed, public-safe highlights across Personal HQ and its eight domains.
- 7
- Project days
- 9
- Visible lanes
- 4
- GitHub repos
- 45
- Merged PRs
- 115
- Mainline commits
- 4
- GitHub repos
- 45
- Merged PRs
- 115
- Mainline commits
- 5
- Closeouts
July 11–17
HQ + 8 domains
Suite applications
All four repos
Default branches
Default branches
GitHub events
GitHub events
July 13–17
GitHub activity trace
Default-branch movement
CommitsMerged PRs
Jul 114 / 0
Jul 121 / 0
Jul 1339 / 13
Jul 1432 / 11
Jul 1522 / 10
Jul 168 / 5
Jul 179 / 6
Repository ledger
GitHub-backed apps
Personal HQ
from Jul 1220 merged PRs · 30 mainline commits
Finance
from Jul 119 merged PRs · 33 mainline commits
Fitness
from Jul 118 merged PRs · 28 mainline commits
Nutrition
from Jul 138 merged PRs · 24 mainline commits
HQ + eight domains
What changed by lane
Focus
Defined1 manual experiment
Defined capture routing and tested the dispatcher once before choosing a data model, persistence, or automation.
Finance
Shipped9 PRs merged
Added verified recommendations, nightly synchronization, conscious-spending readouts, and a freshness-gated payday decision.
Nutrition
Shipped8 PRs merged
Grew from its first commit into a daily food-decision system with history, recipes, streaks, batch intake, and grocery support.
Fitness
Shipped8 PRs merged
Built the training operating system, then added holistic progress, editing, streaks, prehab, and confirmed-history reconciliation.
Learning
AdvancedLibrary + local lab
Turned AI FinOps study material into a reading library and established a local, privacy-safe AI Runway lab.
Career
AdvancedSlate-only pipeline
Narrowed the search to verified opportunities and completed an independent editorial cycle on the AI FinOps evidence library.
Real Estate
ParkedReview Sep 7
Shipped the scoped family view and reset the longer-term plan, then deliberately removed the lane from daily attention.
Progress
Advanced5 public closeouts
Established the reviewed public build log and closed five consecutive published days during the seven-day project window.
GitHub figures are a reviewed snapshot of merged pull requests and default-branch commits through July 17, not a productivity score. Local-only Career-source and AI Runway commits are reflected in the lane highlights but excluded from GitHub totals.
Daily review
July 19, 2026
The suite moved from separate feature work toward one operating loop: Career gained a review-ready priority application package, HQ's private workboard became Docket, and direct capture paths from the three domain apps now feed it. Finance moved decision-focused upgrades into production; Nutrition and Fitness merged theirs, each with one database step still pending.
What moved
Wins
- Career produced a review-ready priority application package and tightened the rule that live roles must be verified from employer-owned sources.
- HQ replaced the short-lived Focus prototype with Docket, a private cross-device product workboard, and deployed direct capture links from Finance, Nutrition, and Fitness.
- Finance shipped more conservative subscription findings that separate repeat spending from likely subscriptions and stop counting already-ended charges as future savings.
- Nutrition merged the bridge from groceries and Pantry to reusable Saved Foods without inventing serving or nutrition data; its database step still needs to run before the release is fully live.
- Fitness merged flexible program configuration and movement-family-aware reporting; the supporting database migration still needs to run before that release is fully live.
Morning starting point
Focus tomorrow
- 1.Review and submit the strongest completed Career application package.
- 2.Verify Docket's production data setup and phone-to-desktop flow, then use it as the capture point for new product work.
- 3.Reconcile Finance's local virtual-allocation branch into a clean review checkpoint, then return Finance attention to ledger completeness and account freshness.
- 4.Run the pending Nutrition Saved Foods and Fitness program-flexibility database migrations, then confirm both releases on the live apps before more product work in either app.
Shipped
Career
- Built a complete application package from verified candidate facts and an employer-owned posting. It remains in review before submission.
- Made employer-owned postings the required source for role verification so job boards cannot silently become application evidence.
Personal HQ and Docket
- Rebuilt the private Focus prototype as Docket: a persistent board for product ideas, features, bugs, and tasks, with quick capture, five workflow stages, epic and sprint context, and an edit drawer.
- Deployed app-aware capture links from Finance, Nutrition, and Fitness; each link opens Docket with the source app already selected.
- Merged the independent editorial review of the week-one progress package and published the July 18 daily closeout to the public timeline.
Finance
- Deployed stricter recurring-charge detection, lapsed-charge recognition, and a clear separation between likely subscriptions and repeat discretionary spending.
- Committed a rework of savings goals as explicit virtual allocations inside reusable cash accounts. That work remains on a local feature branch and is not yet production work.
Nutrition
- Merged user-owned Saved Foods, optional Pantry links, immutable nutrition snapshots for logged servings, and grocery reconciliation that never invents missing food data. Its Saved Foods SQL has not yet run, so the release is not fully live even though the code is deployed.
- Added the direct Docket capture path to the live app.
Fitness
- Merged the program-flexibility release — movement variants, configurable set counts, bounded program controls, and restored preparation context — closing the review the July 18 closeout left open. Its database migration is prepared but not yet applied, so the release is not fully live.
- Added the direct Docket capture path to the live app.
Decisions
- Docket is the suite's private product-work capture surface; it does not absorb life administration or replace domain records.
- Subscription recommendations favor precision over a larger list of speculative savings.
- Savings goals represent assigned intent inside real cash accounts; they do not create a second balance ledger or let multiple goals claim the same dollars.
- Career verification begins with the employer's own posting, and application work pauses when that source is no longer live.
Daily archive
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Every highlighted date has a closeout with that day's wins and the next morning's starting point.