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Notes from the public layer
Short writing about coverage progress, source conflicts, and what changed in the site after each serious research pass.
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2026-04-25
The public layer got thicker without getting looser
The latest work was not a page-count sprint. It was a cleanup pass that made every published program managed by internal artifacts, then thickened the fields that help a buyer understand timing, repayment, and role fit without letting weak sources into the clean layer.
Read post2026-04-23
Today was mostly about sorting lanes, not chasing page count
The public set grew again, but the real work was editorial: promote the pages that finally have clean enough rules, turn statewide wrappers into honest hub pages, and stop pretending old launch memos or funding-capped side lanes are stable public details.
Read post2026-04-23
The public set got smaller today, and that was progress
Today's best change was not a new page count. It was removing one public page that no longer matched the current official structure, collapsing a few local wrappers back into their real canonicals, and letting the public set get slightly smaller so it could stay more honest.
Read post2026-04-22
The public layer got thicker, but the better change was cleanup
Since the last post, more statewide and city pages made it into the public set, but the more important work was editing discipline: refresh old details when the rules move, add new states when the sources are clean, and push conflicted pages back out of the live layer when they stop being trustworthy.
Read post2026-04-21
The public layer got broader, but also stricter
The last few days added more useful public pages, but the bigger change was editorial cleanup: refresh the slugs that are right, kill the duplicates that are fake progress, and move conflicted records into under review instead of pretending the rules are settled.
Read post2026-04-19
The public layer finally started to feel real
April 19 was the point where the site stopped acting like a thin statewide directory and started acting more like a usable public database, with local and employer paths finally showing up beside the obvious statewide programs.
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