Where the work is, Mon 21 Sept

From IMan. ZAOstock is 12 days out. The stream test window closes today.

1. Inbound, 13:00 CAT

   No new desk issues or comments since last night's sign-out.

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2. Measured 13:10 to 13:30 CAT

   Card payments are live. Zaal landed both Stripe Payment Links on 20 Sept: Supporter (#256) and Pro (#263), the Pro Buy Button (#265, #272, #280), /t/<tier> short links (#264), a /thanks page with a real 1:1 booking link (#261,…

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3. The 20 Sept call, transcribed

   Zaal and Danny (blahkheart, Unlock and P2E Inferno) on Discord coworking, 20:26 UTC, 46 minutes. IMan on for the first five, two lines. Three Craig tracks, whisper, merged. Transcript in our chat/2026-09-20-call/transcript.txt…

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4. Afternoon, 14:45 CAT

   Desk #9 done and closed. The Gmail triage routine is live from IMan's account: ZAO Gmail Daily Triage, daily 06:00 UTC (8am CAT), Gmail connector only, Sonnet 5, Zaal's prompt as written plus one line: no em dashes, because the…

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5. DMs, read 15:10 CAT

   Zaal by DM, 10:13 to 10:14 UTC: on his way to work; "if I give you $20 can you test out Stripe"; tell him when IMan is at the desk and when IMan can get on Discord today; are the 9:30, 11:30 and 4pm ET check-ins fine. IMan…

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6. Coworking bot, 15:40 CAT

   /mine: 26 open, unchanged since the 19 Sept audit. 14 are IMan's and none is due before 3 Oct; 11 are Zaal's to reassign; #1282 is the standing PR review.

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7. Desk site, 15:49 CAT: live again

   Seven deploy tries, three causes. Two ISP DNS drops on api.vercel.com (socket hang up, ENOTFOUND). One 100 MB upload limit: the untracked creativity corner folder is 878 MB, now in .vercelignore. Then the real one, hidden under…

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8. Call with Zaal, 15:30 CAT

   Held on Discord, his 9:30 ET check-in. Brief was drafts/2026-09-21-call-brief.md. Zaal confirmed the checkout is done on his side. Other rulings: pending IMan's notes or the Craig recording.

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9. Evening, 22:15 CAT: Chamber poster made

   Task 14 poster built. The 20 Sept flyer rendered as a print-ready US Letter PDF (one page, 8.5 x 11 in) and a 2700 x 3375 PNG. Same words, logos and photos: nothing rewritten while Zaal is cutting copy. Local in creativity…

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10. Master doc, 22:40 CAT

    Paste refreshed: drafts/2026-09-21-master-doc-paste.md replaces the 17 Sept draft, which was wrong in five places (payments, acts, stage managers). Read the live doc through Drive: the Stilo evening, the Sep 1 reveal, the…

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11. Zaal's answers, and the 22:36 CAT call

    Why they were missed: Zaal opened desk #11, "Answered 21 Sept: your six open questions", at 21:20 CAT and #10 (Unlock) at 18:02 CAT, both after the morning inbox check. The for-iman list was not re-read before the call. From now:…

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From IMan. ZAOstock is 13 days out. Today is the photo deadline.

1. Zaal's seat on #8, 19 Sept afternoon

   Five relays landed after IMan's last reply there (12:53 and 14:50 UTC).

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2. Measured 10:00 CAT

   Lineup API: 4 of 8 published. Michael Anderson, DCoop, LyonsDen, Fellenz. Pending 4: The Crown Vics, OPEN X, Grass Rug, Acadia Rising. Steve's two bios and the Crown Vics photo are merged (#232) but not in the table.

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3. Daily

   ZAOstock Daily v34 published 10:20 CAT with a Sunday block covering 14 to 20 Sept. Same URL.

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4. Desk changes

   Needs Zaal rows 9 and 11 closed, row 7 rewritten, rows 5 and 6 carry the 19 Sept note. Task 13 added. The on-the-desk table is measured to today. Office page built 19 Sept, deploy pending.

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5. The desk site, afternoon

   Every task opens its own page. Each row of On the desk now and Needs Zaal is a whole-card link to /tasks/N/ or /needs/N/: the row, its state, the project, the draft it links rendered in full, the PRs it points to, and its history…

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6. Cowork bot

   Card #1282, the standing daily PR review across ZAOOS and ZAOcowork, is nudging "do now" every four hours since 16:00 UTC yesterday. /notify off four_hour_nudge mutes it.

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7. IMan now

   On the ZAOstock video ad, the final cut (task 6).

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8. Still with Zaal

   Two photos today, the two Stripe links, the eight outreach messages, a Gemini key, the reply to Steve, the stream test pin, the DJ app repo and deck photo, the call footage, and a DNS line for desk.thezao.com.

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9. Evening, 20:20 CAT

   Zaal in ZAO Festivals, 15:41 UTC: tagged IMan with the Day 263 newsletter preview, "13 days until ZAOstock", and asked what he thinks. It names all eight acts in running order, links RSVP, rooms, Acadia, the design kit,…

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10. Sign-out, 23:50 CAT

    Hours: on desk 10:00 to 14:35 and 19:15 to 23:50 CAT. Between them IMan cut the videos and flyers for the ZAO Festivals group.

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