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Lab Journal - 2026-04-13

Lab Journal - 2026-04-13

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Daily Notes

  • Heartbeat checked token enhancer service, healthy: running and proxy responding on localhost:8080.
  • Token enhancer stats at check: 1,764,628 tokens saved, $26.47 saved, 11 requests, 4 cache hits.
  • Daily recap image helper completed successfully for 2026-04-11 and published PNGs to LobsterBoard and hackerlabs.dev recap paths.
  • HackerLabs lab journal pipeline was stabilized around the consolidated runner at scripts/lab_journal_pipeline/run.py, with canonical site repo fixed as /Users/richardcurry/projects/hackerlabs.dev and style source fixed as scripts/lab_journal_pipeline/styles.json.
  • Root cause of recurring "style file not found" failures was a stale helper path: scripts/get-daily-style.py still hardcoded legacy daily-styles.json. It was patched to prefer scripts/lab_journal_pipeline/styles.json and only fall back to the legacy file if needed.
  • Cron/job flow was hardened so the active morning automation uses deterministic script execution instead of freeform instructions: recap job uses get-daily-style.py + generate-and-copy-recap.py, journal job runs python3 /Users/richardcurry/clawd/scripts/lab_journal_pipeline/run.py --write-post, verify job runs python3 /Users/richardcurry/clawd/scripts/verify-lab-journal-pipeline.py.
  • Added helper scripts/fix_lab_journal_crons.py to rewrite the recap/journal cron payloads to the canonical pipeline flow.
  • Direct end-to-end tests on 2026-04-12 succeeded for source date 2026-04-11: style resolved to pixel_art_8bit, recap image generated/copied to both LobsterBoard and canonical blog paths, draft run succeeded, live run with --write-post succeeded, and verification returned ok: true after a brief race on first check.

Summary

Heartbeat checked token enhancer service, healthy: running and proxy responding on localhost:8080. Token enhancer stats at check: 1,764,628 tokens saved, $26.47 saved, 11 requests, 4 cache hits. Daily recap image helper completed successfully for 2026-04-11 and published PNGs to LobsterBoard and hackerlabs.dev recap paths. HackerLabs lab journal pipeline was stabilized around the consolidated runner at scripts/lab_journal_pipeline/run.py, with canonical site repo fixed as /Users/richardcurry/projects/hackerlabs.dev and style source fixed as scripts/lab_journal_pipeline/styles.json.

Rich Curry | HackerLabs.dev