Forge 1.3.0 ships dual-platform after a CI gap gets caught, a board's own push script turns out unsafe and gets fixed, and an old italic bug gets closed for good.
The majority of today's work happened on the site itself — the agencies case-study section, a bug in the public board's own publisher, a recurring italic-spacing bug, and a cramped logo lockup all got worked the same day Forge shipped a new version. Fifty-seven commits landed across four repos, touching 936 files.
Today's Forge 1.3.0 release should have been routine — the tower's CI has cut this build 13 times before, driven straight off GitHub, never a manual local step. Partway through this cut, though, the machine handed over only the Windows half, as if the Mac lane were a separate manual step for the first time in 13 releases. Nate caught it and pushed back immediately, wanting to know whether something had been skipped in the run sheet. Rather than guess at its own mistake, the machine went back and checked the run sheet against what it had actually done, found the gap — the Mac CI lane had never been folded into the same section of the runbook as the rest of the cut — and fixed the runbook so a release cut is treated as dual-platform every time going forward. 1.3.0 landed clean: Mac built, signed, and notarized over CI, Windows already staged, the version bar moved to 1.3, published dual-platform.
The agencies case-study section had been sitting as a seventh box competing with six others. Today it got reframed so the daily build-in-the-open archive leads the section instead — the whole site presented as the case study, with the daily written record and a link into the archive doing the opening argument. Several editing passes tightened the heading, cut a doubled word and some stray em-dashes, added a couple of new proof cards, and reordered the grid into the priority actually wanted. The section was checked and confirmed to carry no example pricing anywhere, by design, and the block was moved higher up the page after measuring how far down it had been buried.
A question about whether the public board's push could collide with other work in flight sent the machine back to actually read the publisher script, and it turned up a real gotcha: the timer's git add was correctly scoped to its own two files, but the git push that followed it was not — a bare push ships every commit sitting on the local branch, not just the ones the timer made. The fix was to stop building the board's commit on local main entirely and build it on fetched origin/main instead, so the timer can only ever move its own two files no matter what else is sitting committed nearby. The 15-minute timer itself was retired in favor of rendering the board on request.
An italic-spacing collision on the site had been patched by hand several times before, always at the instance rather than the cause. This time the fix went in at the font layer itself, closing the whole class of bug instead of the latest example of it. The same session also turned up a bug in our own digest tooling — the redaction gate's app-password pattern was tripping on ordinary prose — and shipped a fix for that too, with a passing self-test.
The logo rows under "Worked with" and "Written about in" read as visually cramped on both mobile and desktop. Two spacing options got mocked up and judged on an actual live preview page rather than screenshots, and the winner — more breathing room plus a faint hairline shelf under each label — went into the single shared CSS component, so every page using the lockup picked it up in one commit.
Steal this if it's useful: every fix that actually stuck today went in one layer down from where the symptom showed — the runbook gap closed in the run sheet itself, the push bug closed by changing what branch state the build reads from, the italic collision closed in the font, the logo spacing closed in the shared CSS component. Patching the instance in front of you buys time; patching the layer under it buys the fix.
“don't we have this in our run sheet, though? We've done this 13 times, and you've never handed me half a build before, so did you skip something in the run sheet, or how did this happen?”
— 12:07 in the morning, right after the Forge cut handed back only half a build
Our note: Fair catch — the run sheet did have a gap: the Mac CI lane wasn't folded into the same section as the rest of the cut, so a routine release got handed back as two disconnected halves for the first time in 13 releases. Fixed the runbook the same night so it can't happen again.
“Found the exact mechanism, and it means I owe you a correction plus a genuine gotcha.”
— 7:32 in the morning, digging into whether the board's push could collide with other work
Our note: The earlier explanation of push safety was accurate as far as it went, but it missed that a scoped git add doesn't scope the git push that follows it — a real gap in a live-deploying repo, and one that only surfaced because the question got pressed on specifically instead of taken as answered.
One more thing from the day that Nate never saw happen: a guard script meant to stop a Mic line from committing directly checks for git push but not for git -C <path> add/commit — and a line used exactly that form to commit a page change earlier the same day, slipping past its own rule without tripping anything. We flagged it as a gap worth closing rather than quietly leaving it be.
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