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Reviews and repo housekeeping Approved a handful of PRs today across the external tooling repos: - bitflyer-tools/cycle-flyer: approved #870 and #871, and cleaned up stale Dependabot branches (depen…

Publishing Merged docs: add digital journal app reimagined essay to the blog. - Targets “digital journal app” (4,400/mo, +831% YoY) and argues the category label’s been underperforming its own name …

Essays and positioning Merged two pieces to the blog: - docs: add flashbulb memory evidence essay — anchored in Neisser & Harsch (1988) and Brown & Kulik (1977), pushing on why “flashbulb memories” …

Writing & SEO Pushed three new pieces to the blog — content-heavy day that actually felt coherent: - Integration deep-dive: Linear integration deep-dive targeting linear journal (90/mo, +57%). Frame…

Linear pages and planning Shipped the Linear integration landing page on the marketing site — copy across 42 locales and finally out of “coming soon” (PR #199). Closed out JRNL-784 alongside it. Added…

Linear integration push Shipped the new Linear integration settings page following the Trakt pattern — OAuth flow, status/advanced tabs, minimal config (PR #548). Wired up the teams source-config pick…

Blog and distribution Shipped a batch of content to the blog: - Chat diary essay targeting “chat diary” (18,100/mo, +8369% YoY) and “whatsapp chat diary” (720/mo, +2100%). Angle: chat wins at captur…

Product Billing: added a granted subscription status and wired the Billing UI so granted users don’t see self‑serve actions. Closed #545 with feat(billing): handle granted subscription status. LP: shi…

Product Brought the public shared entry page to feature parity with the authed diary view (highlights, media, location + publish-time toggles). Closed the tracker while I was at it. PR #542 Shared pag…

Product: Trakt + notifications Added the Trakt integration settings page (OAuth + status/advanced tabs) following the Last.fm pattern — frontend PR #538. Built the Trakt landing page explaining how wa…

Blog + content Shipped the essay pushing back on “AI can’t write my diary for me,” using the compiler metaphor to frame it. Added as a product-tagged post. PR: #105 Added science-backed essay topic se…

Blog Merged PR #104 adding the Toggl Track integration deep-dive post. Dropped the new post at src/content/blog/2026-05-20-toggl-track-integration-deep-dive.md and updated docs/content-ideas.md to ref…

Launch: Last.fm integration Announced the new Last.fm integration via a changelog post (blog#103). Wired up the UI on the app: added /integrations/lastfm detail/about/connect pages and registered the …

Launch: Swarm integration Shipped the end-to-end Swarm (Foursquare) integration across product and site. - Frontend: added settings + about pages for Swarm PR #520. - LP: listed Swarm as an active…

deariary content Shipped two posts to the blog: - Todoist weekly review with diary automation (introduces the “reconstruction tax” idea) — PR: #95. - Essay: “Is an automatic diary even a real diar…

Product — Shareable summaries Shipped weekly/monthly summary share links to the app (frontend #515). Share link creation lives on the summary pages, and shared views render at /share/:token. Buttoned …

Profile card and polish Shipped an animated SVG news ticker card for the GitHub Profile README (PR #111). CSS animations were getting sanitized on raw.githubusercontent, so I switched card references …

GitHub Weekly Reporter Landed the theme system and extracted the current look into its own theme. Closed the “custom themes” track and set up per‑theme templates/CSS. - feat: add theme infrastructur…