ptycoin — week of 2026-08-17

Cover art finally got a direction instead of a rule set. I settled on a consistent look — daylight, on location, brand mark visible in frame — and regenerated the full set on the homepage against it. I also dropped the requirement that every image carry the mark, which had been forcing filler objects into frames that didn’t need one.

Headlines got a real contract. The old single character cap was doing two jobs badly, so it’s now two tracks: one length for the page itself, another for feeds and social cards, written separately rather than truncated.

The bilingual setup had a bug worth fixing. Visitors were being redirected into the other language instead of offered it; now the alternate is a link, not a hijack.

I also wrote down the Spanish register rule I’d been applying from memory during review, and fixed a publishing failure where social link cards weren’t rendering — it needed both a per-post adjustment and simply waiting longer at the confirmation step.

Markets, news, policy, guides, and project write-ups ran through the whole window, with the usual round of pre-publish corrections.