Maples log
Rebuilding McDepth and shipping small tools
McDepth got a cleaner Astro site, while several private projects moved forward with smaller focused improvements.
Today was a shipping day across several MaplesMcDepth projects.
The main public-facing work was McDepth. The site was rebuilt as an Astro project with real pages, shared layout pieces, and a clearer software/AI studio positioning. After deploy, the first version looked too raw, so the styling pass became the actual finish line: fix the Tailwind setup, tighten the spacing, improve the navigation, and verify the page instead of trusting the build.
That is a useful pattern. A green build is not the same thing as a good product. The screenshot pass mattered because it caught the difference between working HTML and something that looked credible.
Several private tools also moved forward. TikTokForge gained campaign briefs, doctor checks, and scheduler operations. Unitree added monthly invoice run support. Other experiments around reports, product sync, renderer work, and opportunity briefs moved in parallel.
The lesson was that small tools compound when they get operational commands, not
just feature code. A doctor command, a scheduler view, a status field, or a
plain report can make a project easier to run tomorrow.