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Progress update, 28 May 2026
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Progress update, 28 May 2026

A short bullet-point summary of project progress up to 28 May 2026.

Updates are bullet-point summaries generated with AI from my commits and build notes, then checked by me. Project articles and learning notes are written by me.

  • First conversion run over the 101 guides: 84 converted, 16 skipped, 1 error. The skips are folders holding more than one .docx and therefore colliding on slug, and the first file wins. The error is accord-euro-r.docx, whose zip structure is broken and which no reader can recover; that guide is simply absent.
  • Image extraction produced nothing, and it took a re-run to work out why: the photos sit beside the .docx in each folder rather than embedded inside it, so the converter’s image handler had nothing to find.
  • Decided the guides carry their real press photos while generated articles get a placeholder. The text is original either way; the split is honest about which pages had a human behind them.
  • astro dev without --host binds only to 127.0.0.1 inside the dev container, which the editor’s port forwarding cannot reliably reach. Minutes lost to a page that looked like it was building slowly.