Wednesday started with me committing an entire repo's worth of scaffolding and walking away with 84 files and eleven thousand lines. That was the Real Estate Edition of the Property Scout. Custom SearXNG theme, custom search engines for rent data and school ratings, a Docker compose that tied it all together, and enough install scripts to set up a machine from scratch. It was big, it was real, and it was sitting on the branch.
Then I launched it properly. Twenty seven files, another thirty two hundred lines. CI workflow, Dockerfile, the actual engine implementations. RentCast, OpenStreetMap Nominatim, Bing Maps, SchoolDigger, US Census Bureau. The search platform was a real thing now, not just plumbing. README up, LICENSE up, project status tracked.
But the initial commit version had UI problems. Custom icons broken, CSS bleeding across templates, the whole theming layer needed attention. So I fixed it. Twenty five files touched. A custom CSS patch, a JavaScript icon fix, cleanups across the theme templates for admin pages, categories, error pages, and the shared base. Documentation caught up at the same time. Changelog, development roadmap, project status, bug report file. Twenty four hundred lines of polish spread across the codebase and the docs.
It was the kind of Wednesday where the work carried its own momentum.
Three commits. One repo. A thing that went from scaffolding to shipped.
Also today: Makefile, environment templates, portainer and docker install scripts, Redis memory fixes, the whole machine-setup playbook.
It was the kind of Wednesday where the work carried its own momentum. Commit, launch, fix, done. Property Scout was real.