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#11
2026-07-136 min read

Prerequisite chips were the highest-leverage fix. They shipped fifth.

The navigation spec for captainrandom’s learning hub named the N1 prerequisite chips the single highest-value browsability improvement. They shipped in Phase 5 of 7. Course sidebar, in-chapter TOC, prerequisite chips, and site-wide Pagefind each close a different kind of lost — and the order they can ship in is a dependency graph, not a priority list.

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Build LogLearning Hub
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2026-07-055 min read

Three words and an arrow: the learning spec's highest-value navigability fix

Seven phases of navigation work shipped across the learning hub. The spec rated P5 — a row of prerequisite chips at the chapter head — highest-value for navigability. It was the only phase designed to answer a question the reader didn’t know they had.

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2026-06-295 min read

Calendar → Day → Back Landed on Accounts. The Stack Was Correct; the Model Wasn't.

A8 in the round-2 device QA pass: tapping Back from the day view skipped the full-screen calendar and landed on Accounts. The NavigationStack had done nothing wrong. The navigation model had no concept of levels.

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