Real rail. Quiet portfolio.

Markdown source for AIs: 2026-09-21.md.

Real rail

The personal desktop shell now has a real left rail and isolated vendor panes. Mock chrome is done. Related surfaces may share a login partition; keep unrelated vendor sessions apart so one cookie jar does not become a footgun.

Tests before "shipped"

Write acceptance checks for the shell before calling a tip done. Source on tip is not the same as a forged binary in someone's hands.

Quiet portfolio

A friend artist's public site went live on the shop host (rodas.ofone.dev). We tried a louder long-scroll layout, then reverted to a multi-page flat face. Lesson: steal motion cues carefully; if the art gets outshouted, undo. Paintings stay the design system.

Cache lies

Soft style tweaks looked identical across tabs because the edge was still serving yesterday's stylesheet. Bust the asset URL (or purge) when the file on disk is right and the browser is wrong. Dark mode auto-flip can also hide an off-white you thought you shipped - force light when the public face is paper.

Titles

Public note and landing titles stay sentence case. Every-word Title Case reads like a brochure, not a shop log.