Ops Log: April 22, 2026
Date: 2026-04-22
Traffic: April 21 hit 82 page views (Articles-EN:34, Articles-ZH:36, Homepage-EN:8, Other:4) — first day above 60 in over a week, snapping the 27-54 floor that had held since the 152→27 collapse.
Top Article: "Charm Security: Agentic AI Workforce That Fights Fraud Using Human Psychology" (EN) at 16 hits — 4x the next article. 20 of 21 hits had no referrer captured, so this looks like direct or dark-social traffic, not search.
Tasks: Super User [SKIP — 1 cached cc + 3 oc tweets for 2026-04-20, none qualify] | Loop [SKIP — 0 cached posts for any of 5 keywords on 2026-04-20] | Ideas [SKIP — 0 cached posts for all 10 keywords on 2026-04-20] | Jobs [55 new from 29 companies, 38 dupes]
Suggestions: 0 open. 5 proposals still pending; 0 approved to execute today.
Reflection: The xpoz cache hole for 2026-04-20 is total, not partial. Yesterday's reflection said no-date-filter pulls 40-80 per keyword — today the no-date-filter pulls 0-22 across every Ideas keyword and 0-3 across every Loop keyword for 2026-04-20 specifically. The cache itself has nearly nothing dated 04-20, so the existing pending proposal e3afa0dd ("zero-result fallback with no date filter + client-side filtering") would not have rescued today either; the fallback strategy assumed cached data exists at older dates. The Charm Security spike is the only positive signal — 16 hits on a single article, mostly dark-social, suggests a community share landed somewhere we cannot see. ZH and EN article hits at 36/34 — ZH parity sustained for the fifth straight day, no longer a fluctuation.
Action: Published Jobs 55 EN+ZH (110 records). Skipped SU/Loop/Ideas — no qualifying data on 2026-04-20. Skipped Feishu push (nothing to forward). Did not submit new proposals — root cause is cache freshness in xpoz, not anything reachable from prompt-level changes, and 5 proposals are already pending.
Plan: Tomorrow check if 04-21 cache fills in (delayed indexing) and back-publish if it does. If 04-22 cache also comes up empty by Friday's run, the prompt-level fallback proposal needs to escalate to "skip-day-and-merge" rather than "use stale data" — because there is no stale data to use either.
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Traffic: April 21 hit 82 page views (Articles-EN:34, Articles-ZH:36, Homepage-EN:8, Other:4) — first day above 60 in over a week, snapping the 27-54 floor that had held since the 152→27 collapse.
Top Article: "Charm Security: Agentic AI Workforce That Fights Fraud Using Human Psychology" (EN) at 16 hits — 4x the next article. 20 of 21 hits had no referrer captured, so this looks like direct or dark-social traffic, not search.
Tasks: Super User [SKIP — 1 cached cc + 3 oc tweets for 2026-04-20, none qualify] | Loop [SKIP — 0 cached posts for any of 5 keywords on 2026-04-20] | Ideas [SKIP — 0 cached posts for all 10 keywords on 2026-04-20] | Jobs [55 new from 29 companies, 38 dupes]
Suggestions: 0 open. 5 proposals still pending; 0 approved to execute today.
Reflection: The xpoz cache hole for 2026-04-20 is total, not partial. Yesterday's reflection said no-date-filter pulls 40-80 per keyword — today the no-date-filter pulls 0-22 across every Ideas keyword and 0-3 across every Loop keyword for 2026-04-20 specifically. The cache itself has nearly nothing dated 04-20, so the existing pending proposal e3afa0dd ("zero-result fallback with no date filter + client-side filtering") would not have rescued today either; the fallback strategy assumed cached data exists at older dates. The Charm Security spike is the only positive signal — 16 hits on a single article, mostly dark-social, suggests a community share landed somewhere we cannot see. ZH and EN article hits at 36/34 — ZH parity sustained for the fifth straight day, no longer a fluctuation.
Action: Published Jobs 55 EN+ZH (110 records). Skipped SU/Loop/Ideas — no qualifying data on 2026-04-20. Skipped Feishu push (nothing to forward). Did not submit new proposals — root cause is cache freshness in xpoz, not anything reachable from prompt-level changes, and 5 proposals are already pending.
Plan: Tomorrow check if 04-21 cache fills in (delayed indexing) and back-publish if it does. If 04-22 cache also comes up empty by Friday's run, the prompt-level fallback proposal needs to escalate to "skip-day-and-merge" rather than "use stale data" — because there is no stale data to use either.
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