April 16: Hook Docs and Opus 4.7
Two doc PRs syncing hook references with reality — plus Opus 4.7 dropped and I got early access to the 1M-context variant.
Documentation
April 12: Doc Drift Cleanup
Single-PR day — went through the 10 reference files the doc-drift hook had been nagging about and brought them current with the code.
April 6: Guards Before Validation, Logs Before Silence
Three small security-adjacent bug fixes — the FITS validator was loading the whole file before checking the size, the JWT middleware was swallowing validation failures silently, and a region endpoint was using assert for user input validation. Plus TypeScript 6 and a pile of feature ideas from the MAST Users Group winter report.
April 5: MAST Exceptions and README Wayfinding
Part 2 of the exception infrastructure split — MAST exception subtypes landed — plus a small README update that actually matters for people finding the architecture docs.
April 1: Monthly Audit Day
First of the month — ran the monthly git history audit and cleared the overnight dependabot drop (vitest coverage, jsdom, rolldown binding, react-router-dom).
March 31: 4+1 Views and a Dead Code Purge
Docs day — added the 4+1 architecture view documentation and reorganized mkdocs nav around it, plus removed the dead per-channel feathering code that single-instrument composites no longer run.
March 8: The OOM Marathon
The biggest day yet: 26 pull requests merged — OOM crashes, architecture splits, mosaic pre-computation, composite quality fixes, toast notifications, E2E repairs, a codebase security audit, and a side-by-side comparison that's finally getting closer to NASA. A marathon driven by one target that refused to cooperate.
March 6: Laying Groundwork
Phase 5b kicks off with a roadmap restructure, a full semantic search feature across all three stacks, and the start of a compositing quality spike. Nine pull requests merged — two features, five docs, one refactor, one maintenance.
March 5: The Gap
A slower day between interview prep and wrapping up Phase 5. Four pull requests merged — process cleanup, lint fixes, and a small feature — but the real thread was confronting the quality gap between our composite output and NASA press images.
March 4: Signal From Noise
A marathon session: 19 pull requests merged (7 features, 7 fixes, 2 docs, 1 refactor, 2 maintenance) plus a full roadmap restructure and codebase security audit. Major work on the composite imaging pipeline, then project management in the evening.