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2026-07-165 min read

The navigation plan shipped on Pagefind. Prerequisite chips were the higher-leverage fix.

Six phases of navigation work shipped on the learning hub in July. Pagefind — site-wide search — closed the programme. Prerequisite chips, one phase earlier, delivered more navigability per line of code by firing at orientation time rather than recovery time.

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2026-07-166 min read

The read-first chip outperformed the TOC, track sections, and site-wide search

The learning hub navigation programme ran six phases across two days: track sections, a scroll-spy TOC, prerequisite chips, and site-wide Pagefind search. The smallest phase shipped fifth and delivered more navigability than all the rest combined. The structural reason was there in the spec before the build started.

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