- 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
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