Day 1 - May 2, 2026: Refining the Launchpad

Day 1 focused on the last-mile technical issues discovered after Day 0. No new dashboard was built. The work went into stabilizing deployment, routing, quality gates, and local workflows so the project can support long-term daily execution.

The priority was to make the foundation predictable before adding more dashboard surface area.

Goal

• Ensure deployment and routing are stable and independent.
• Strengthen CI/CD quality gates before the dashboard cadence accelerates.
• Align local and CI environments to eliminate drift.

Challenges

• 100daydash.blog was forwarding to isaacneibaur.com instead of resolving as an independent site.
• The CI pipeline failed on Prettier formatting checks even when the local implementation looked complete.
• The secret scanning baseline added friction while the scanning rules were being tuned.
• Local success did not yet fully match CI enforcement, which created avoidable feedback loops.

DNS and Routing

• Diagnosed the incorrect Cloudflare forwarding behavior.
• Updated Cloudflare page rules, redirect behavior, and DNS configuration so 100daydash.blog resolves independently.
• Confirmed the deployed site now has a stable route that is separate from personal-domain traffic.

Cloudflare routing now supports an independent deployment path for 100daydash.blog.

Quality Gate Hardening

• Identified formatting failures in CI through prettier --check.
• Added a fail-fast local strategy with Husky and lint-staged.
• Enforced formatting before commit so routine style issues are caught before CI.
• Kept CI responsible for final verification instead of first discovery.

GitHub Actions quality gates are passing, reinforcing the linting, formatting, test, and coverage expectations for the project.

Security Refinement

• Continued tuning secret scanning to reduce false positives.
• Preserved strict enforcement for real secret risk.
• Balanced security signal with developer velocity so scans remain useful during daily publishing.

Environment Alignment

• Matched local workflows to CI expectations for formatting, tests, file structure, and generated content.
• Reinforced reproducibility across laptop, desktop, CI, and deployment environments.
• Reduced the gap between “works locally” and “passes the pipeline.”

Definition of Done (Day 1)

• Domain routing resolves correctly without unintended redirects.
• CI passes quality gates for tests, linting, and formatting.
• Pre-commit hooks enforce formatting locally before changes reach CI.
• Local and CI environments behave consistently.
• Blog layout and structure are ready for repeatable daily use.

Closing Reflection

Day 1 did not produce a dashboard, but it made the system significantly more stable. The routing, CI, local hooks, and scanning workflow now provide a more reliable launchpad for the remaining days.

That investment should increase future velocity because the Dashboard Factory is less dependent on manual correction and more dependent on repeatable checks.