What’s new in ChrisDarden.dev

Mission Control now drives the Pi’s automatic Darden Dispatch print timing and readiness handoff.

• Set the daily generation handoff to 6:00–6:30 a.m. and expose Print Target plus Latest Print Time.
• Read the saved print schedule every minute in America/Chicago and queue today’s validated Drive PDF through the existing CUPS worker.
• Treat the saved Mission Control print window and exact Pause Printing Until timestamp as authoritative.
• Honor vacation pauses and retain the existing durable duplicate-print safeguards.

Theme contrast, responsive controls, project proof cards, and Darden Dispatch settings previews receive a focused visual repair pass.

• Restore readable Work and Homelab light-mode surfaces while preserving deliberate dark diagrams and terminals.
• Contain Mission Control controls and fixed badges at phone and tablet widths.
• Balance the working-method steps and prevent project names from breaking inside words.
• Load the immutable Markdown and JSON settings revision directly into its Mission Control preview modal.

The Darden Dispatch production controls now include responsive polishing plus queued Drive and CUPS integration workflows.

• Repair the public projects route conflict and add a privacy-safe Darden Dispatch project preview.
• Improve the newspaper settings layout for phone and iPad widths and keep Markdown/JSON previews inside Mission Control.
• Add curated theme controls plus owner-only Drive archive browsing and manual print actions.
• Move Drive synchronization and print submission into background jobs with concurrency and duplicate-submission safeguards.

The Darden Dispatch adds a new personalized publishing workflow and a private Mission Control control center.

• Add The Darden Dispatch as a featured, privacy-safe portfolio project.
• Add private newspaper controls for generation, optional printing, themes, interest signals, and free-form next-issue instructions.
• Keep immutable settings revisions with downloadable Markdown and JSON handoff files.
• Add history, validation, rollback safeguards, and production-ready controls for the next Drive and printer integration phases.

Security and reliability improvements strengthen the public contact experience and private site administration.

• Strengthen protections around public contact submissions.
• Improve safeguards around private administrative access.
• Improve security-related activity visibility for authorized administration.
• Add regression coverage for the updated security and access behavior.

Release notes now stay synchronized with the deployed site version and the latest HVAC Field Manual refresh.

• Restore the missing v1.0.4 release entry to the public release log.
• Pin historical release identifiers to the version that actually shipped so future releases cannot relabel older notes.
• Document the deployment lesson that app and web images must remain in sync when public assets are baked into the web image.

The HVAC Field Manual project detail now matches the implemented diagnostic workflow more closely.

• Clarified condenser inspection versus cleaning decisions.
• Documented electrical readings, airflow gatekeeping, temperature context, refrigeration measurements, and capacitor checks already present in HVACapp.
• Expanded the explanation of charging-target provenance and service-history baseline value without changing shared project layouts.

The supporting project cards now share a balanced scale and restrained application artwork.

• NFCStorage now uses the same compact card structure as HVAC Field Manual.
• Both supporting projects share the desktop grid instead of claiming oversized full-width rows.
• HVAC pressure gauges are capped at a readable supporting size.

Featured projects are more compact and light mode remains readable across the public site.

• NFCStorage uses a denser phone layout without losing its detailed feature summary.
• The HVAC card is constrained to a deliberate desktop presentation instead of oversized gauges.
• Light-mode headings, body copy, cards, and specialty pages retain readable contrast.

Project cards and light-mode branding now remain clear, balanced, and readable.

• Light mode uses the approved white-surface PCB logo with dark circuit lines and blue accents.
• The detailed NFCStorage showcase receives the full width it needs instead of crushing its content into a narrow column.
• The HandyHounds active-business badge now sits beside the project heading.

Versioned releases are now part of the project’s normal development, review, deployment, and rollback workflow.

• The current release is visible in every page footer.
• Every pull request must increment the semantic version.
• Every release must add a matching dated entry to the running changelog.
• Automated checks keep the version file, README, changelog, and application display synchronized.