Both generateBlog() and generateBlogManual() were calling
POST /api/blog/generate without an Authorization: Bearer header.
The requireAuth middleware correctly returned 401, which appeared
as 'Unauthorized — please log in' toast in the dashboard.
Fix: read loadToken() before each fetch and include the token in
the Authorization header. Also add r.status===401 guard to redirect
to login page when token expires, instead of showing error toast.
Replace hard-coded purple/green colors with theme CSS variables.
Dark code blocks (#1e1e1e bg), orange accent for active borders/badges,
dark green for status text, amber for warnings — all readable on white.
Shows active model (fo-blog-v3-qwen7b / claude-sonnet-4-6 / qwen2.5:14b),
live status from /api/blog/llm/status, ratings, config instructions,
and highlights which model is currently active.
- Reset details_verified=false for 298 products where reach_label is empty (DB migration)
- Runtime check in dashboard: dVer requires non-empty reach_label regardless of DB flag
- comparable price query: treat reach_meters=0 same as NULL so 800G OSFP products
find FS.com equivalent prices (was blocked by reach_meters=0 != NULL shortcircuit)
- Product image area now fully clickable with vendor link overlay when product_page_url exists
- Clear wrong image for O.Czz8HG.z.R (was showing unrelated OSFP product image)
- Price column now shows price_verified_eur (in EUR, dimmed) when street_price_usd is null
Fixes: FS.COM products showing dash while being marked fully verified
- Badge logic now requires visible price AND image_verified AND details_verified
No more badge when price displays as dash — all requirements must be visually present
- 'Post on blog.fichtmueller.org' → publishes via Ghost Admin API
- 'Post on LinkedIn' → modal with text + copy + open LinkedIn
- Ghost integration: TIP Blog Engine (JWT auth, mobiledoc format)
token variable was undefined in loadCrawlerStatus() scope (only declared
inside IIFE auth guard, not globally). All API calls silently failed with
401. Fix: read token from localStorage at start of function, consistent
with getAuthHeaders() pattern used in all other load functions.
Replace static CSS ::after tooltips with JS-powered smart tooltips.
Tooltips now detect available space above/below and flip accordingly,
and clamp horizontally to viewport bounds. Hide on scroll.
- POST /api/auth/login: HMAC-SHA256 signed 7-day token, password from DASHBOARD_PASSWORD env
- GET /api/auth/verify: stateless token validation
- requireAuth middleware applied to all /api/* routes (except /api/health + /api/auth)
- /dashboard/login.html: dark TIP-themed login page with show/hide password toggle
- index.html: auth guard redirect to login + Authorization header on all api() calls
- No secrets in code — password stored in .env only
- Rename nav tab and sub-nav from 'Procurement Intel' to 'Procurement Intelligence'
- Add data-tip tooltips to all 8 ABC table column headers
- Add title attributes to signal badges, ABC class badges, supply risk, stock/price/lead trend spans, signal strength bar
- Add hover descriptions to Market Intelligence type icons, buy signal badges, technology tags, impact horizon, source
- Add hover descriptions to Lifecycle Events type icons, buy signal badges, impact level, effective date
- Tooltips explain business meaning of every data point (e.g. ABC classification formula, demand score composition, supply risk levels)
- api() helper now parses JSON body on non-2xx responses so error.suggestion
is available in catch blocks
- runFinder() catch shows 'Switch not found' + suggestion instead of 'Error: HTTP 404'
- finder.ts: normalized search (removes hyphens/spaces) + token-based fallback
so 'sg350-28' → 'SG350-28', 'N9K-C93180' → Nexus 93180, etc.
- CHANGELOG_PENDING.md: 26 entries from v0.1.0 to today in JSON-line format
- GET /api/changelog: parses and serves entries as JSON array
- Overview tab: changelog card with type badges (FEAT/FIX/UI/DATA/AI/INFRA),
dates, show recent/all toggle
- isGarbageName(): detects scraped-slugs, 'All Optical Transceivers', 'Compatible NNGbps...',
generic form-factor descriptions with no real SKU
- Panel title priority: real standard_name → part_number → description → constructed from specs
- Details warning shown when details_verified = false (amber banner)
- sql/018: marks garbage entries as data_confidence='garbage' for future DELETE
- API: also returns comparable_prices from technically equivalent products
(same form_factor + speed_gbps + reach ±25%, different vendor, last 30 days)
- Dashboard: direct prices shown first, then separator + comparable products
- Comparable entries show vendor + exact part number scraped from their site
- Verified badge = real URL + observed within 7 days (strict)
- 100% VERIFIED bar: checkmarks now rgba(255,255,255,0.92) instead of #2d6a4f (was invisible on green bg)
- Pricing: only show prices with real URL; no MSRP/estimated fallback
- Verified badge only if observed within 7 days; older prices shown without badge
- Temperature Range: COM→'0-70°C (COM)', IND→'-40-85°C (IND)'
- GET /api/transceivers/🆔 returns competitor_prices[] from price_observations
- Detail view: verification summary bar (★ 100% VERIFIED / partial)
- Detail view: Current Prices section with vendor, price, verified badge, date, link
- Detail view: tag tooltips on vendor/category/market_status chips
- List view: new Verified column with 100% stamp or price check
- Optical Budget: TX Power Min/Max labels clarified
- Panel close button: high-contrast rgba background, 38px, bold ×, shadow
- Detail view: full product name (SKU + description) shown above image
- List view: NAME column shows part_number on line 1, descriptive name line 2
- txDescName() helper builds name from description field or constructs from specs
DB (017-verification-tags.sql):
- New columns: price_verified, price_verified_eur, price_verified_url, price_verified_at
- New columns: image_verified, details_verified, fully_verified, fully_verified_at
- compute_transceiver_verification(uuid): per-product verification logic
• price_verified: real scraped URL + price > 0 + observed in last 30 days
• image_verified: R2 stored OR image_url from known vendor CDNs (flexoptix.net, fs.com, etc.), no placeholder
• details_verified: product_page_url + all core fields (form_factor, speed, reach, fiber_type, part_number) populated
• fully_verified: all three true simultaneously
- recompute_all_verification(): bulk recompute, returns stats
- Initial run: 3575 price_verified, 1173 image_verified, 1380 details_verified, 258 fully_verified
- Indexes on price_verified, fully_verified for fast filtering
- v_verified_products view
API finder.ts:
- SELECT now includes all verification fields
- Response maps: price_verified, price_verified_eur, price_verified_url, image_verified, details_verified, fully_verified
API health.ts:
- verification block: counts + coverage percentages in /api/health
Dashboard Finder:
- 'Verified Price': green checkmark ✓ next to price, tooltip explains source
- '100% Verified' stamp: dark green gradient badge top of card, card gets green border
- 'price source ↗' link to original scraped URL
- Summary bar: 'X × 100% Verified · Y with verified prices'
- New 'Finder' tab between Switches and Blog Engine
- Search by switch model (free text), filter by speed
- Quick-access buttons: Nexus 93180, Nexus 9332D, Arista 7280R3A, Juniper QFX5120
- Results grouped by speed class (400G QSFP-DD, 100G QSFP28, etc.)
- Shows: part number, vendor, reach, fiber type, connector, verified price, stock status
- Flexoptix products highlighted with orange left border + FLEXOPTIX badge
- Buy link → flexoptix.net for each result
- Uses existing /api/finder endpoint with 33,993 compatibility entries
- Expanded research pool to 9 topics (was 3), evergreen to 12 (was 3)
- Conference topics: added Photonics West, CIOE, NFOEC follow-up, year-end review
- Standards topics: 3 rotating variants (IEEE tracker, SFF-8024 registry, OIF CEI-112G)
- seededShuffle(): day-of-year as seed — stable within the day, different every day
- API response adds refreshes_at (next midnight UTC) for frontend countdown
- Dashboard subtitle shows 'rotates daily · next refresh in Xh'
- Hot topic cards now pass full title + angle into generateBlog() correctly
- POST /api/blog/:id/regenerate — re-runs full 10-step LLM pipeline on existing draft
- Regenerate button visible when quality_issues present or status=review
- SEO keywords now displayed as clickable #hashtags (copy-to-clipboard)
- fo-blog-pipeline: added PoE misuse, DR4 mislabeling, ZR/DR4 conflation as hard QA fails
- fo-blog-pipeline: 14 hard rules in system prompt (was 10)
- fo-blog-pipeline: CALIBRATION_GOLD_STANDARD + withCalibration() from 10/10 human review
- System prompt now includes gold standard example on every pipeline run
Hot Topics:
- Dynamic topics from /api/hot-topics loaded in Blog Engine tab
- 7 data sources (prices, competitors, hype cycle, news, conferences, research, evergreen)
- Urgency badges: BREAKING (red), HOT (orange), TRENDING (yellow), EMERGING (green)
Pipeline Lock:
- Only 1 generation at a time, 'Pipeline Busy' toast on double-click
- Progress bar with step names (external hot-topics.js, no inline hacks)
Blog Delete:
- DELETE /api/blog/:id endpoint
- Delete button (✕) on each blog in list
- 'Delete All Templates' button to clean up test drafts
Fix: dashboard JS extracted to external hot-topics.js to avoid sed quote hell
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).
