From the workshop, weekly

The steward’s notebook for Hearthkeep.

One short recap a week — what shipped, what tightened under monitoring, and the small operator fixes that keep the watchlist honest. Plain English, dated, newest-first.

  1. Aug 12, 2026

    This week from the workshop

    One short steward recap — the SSL probe tightening, the new blog, and the small UX polish on the operator console.

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    The HTTPS probe has been quietly under the knife for the last few days. We moved it from every six hours to every ninety minutes once a certificate is inside the thirty-day warning window, and the digest now lists it as a "needs you" item rather than a footnote in the daily sweep. A small thing on paper, but it means an expiring cert surfaces in front of you the same morning the padlock would have started to look thin, not the week after.

    The second small change is this: a markdown-backed /blog, just one short post a week for now. Same plain-English voice as the changelog, so anyone who already gets the Friday digest has another place to skim during morning coffee. No comments, no social embeds, no popups — just a list of dated entries sorted newest-first and a footer link. Adding one means dropping a file into src/content/blog and pushing.

    Last small thing for the week: a one-click "hold auto-fixes" toggle lifted out of the settings submenu and onto the actions row on each SiteIssue card. Saved about three clicks per weekly round for whoever is running watchlist triage that day, which is more useful than it sounds when the watchlist is up past forty sites. Bigger items on deck for next week — exporting the rollback audit log and a longer background piece on the SEO regression guard.