Hot Topics Engine (GET /api/hot-topics):
- 7 data sources: price movements, competitor alerts, hype cycle transitions,
news articles, conference calendar, research trends, evergreen topics
- Auto-discovers BREAKING/HOT/TRENDING/EMERGING topics
- Dashboard loads topics dynamically with urgency badges and source labels
- Click any topic → generates blog with that angle
Pipeline Lock (critical UX fix):
- Only 1 blog generation at a time (blogPipelineRunning flag)
- 'Pipeline Busy' toast if user clicks while generating
- Lock released on completion, timeout, or error
Dashboard:
- Static 3 cards replaced with dynamic hot topics grid
- 'Refresh Topics' button
- Topics show urgency color (red=breaking, orange=hot, yellow=trending, green=emerging)
- Auto-loads when Blog Engine tab opens
When you click Generate:
- Dark overlay with orange progress bar shows pipeline status
- Live step counter: 'Step 3/10: Outline Generation — decision-driven structure'
- Percentage updates every 15 seconds via API polling
- When done: shows word count + QA score, auto-opens the article
- No more silent template dump — user sees the entire pipeline working
Dashboard now uses /api/hype-cycle/enriched for forecast data.
Forecast chart: SVG area chart with adoption % per technology over 5 years.
Regional heatmap: table with market share intensity per region per tech.
Both render below the existing hype cycle table.
Premium dark UI with ambient glow background, glass cards, gradient
text, animated counters, glow effects on hype cycle dots, smooth
transitions, and improved detail panel with regional adoption and
revenue lifecycle data. Fix API data key mismatch (data vs transceivers).
- Removed AI-slop gradient header, replaced with compact info bar
- JetBrains Mono for data, Inter for text — proper engineering tool aesthetic
- Unified slide-in detail panel for hype cycle, transceivers, and blog drafts
- Transceiver table: clickable rows open full spec sheet in side panel
- Form factor dropdown filter on transceivers tab
- Blog drafts: click to read full content in panel
- Tighter spacing, smaller fonts, higher information density
- Escape key closes panel, responsive breakpoints
- No gratuitous badges/glow — clean data presentation
Single-file dashboard with 6 tabs: Overview, Semantic Search,
Hype Cycle, Transceivers, News, Blog Engine. Dark theme, no
build step, served as static HTML from Express.
- Overview: health stats, vector collection counts, recent news
- Semantic Search: query across all 6 Qdrant collections
- Hype Cycle: Norton-Bass table with phase colors + position bars
- Transceivers: searchable table with form factor/speed/reach
- News: semantic news search with source links
- Blog: generate drafts from templates, view draft history
Live at: https://transceiver-db.context-x.org/dashboard/
