Wednesday, May 13, 2026

A 20-minute fix turned into a multi-brand site by lunch. Then cleared eight stalled releases in one shot.

Started with a small routing fix on sagedaily.io. It surfaced a bigger problem — one broken piece had been blocking every release for 18 hours, with eight changes queued behind it. Found the cause, cleared it, shipped all eight.

Then the day shifted. A shared resources library (books, tools, courses across products) had been wired as code. The better answer: make it its own small site, one per brand, not a shared library. First one live by lunch, the others stubbed and ready.

Shipped

• Resources site — multi-brand, live by lunch
• Eight stalled releases — unblocked and shipped
• Routing fix — test-first

Notes

When eight things are stalled, the bottleneck is usually one specific thing. Find it by following what's queued.