How I Built
The Command Center
in a Weekend

The Static Dashboard

One index.html. Inline Tailwind via CDN. Inline JS. Six tabs: Portfolio, Pipeline, OKRs, Tasks, Feeds, Builds. Every cell is click-to-edit. State persists to localStorage on every change.

The Morning Data Refresh

A static HTML file can't fetch live RSS at open-time (CORS, performance, offline). So the morning engine pre-fetches everything and writes data.js. Next time you open index.html, it loads instantly with last night's data.

import { portfolio } from './data.mjs';
import { fetchFeeds } from './feeds.mjs';
import { readDigest } from './digest.mjs';
import { writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';

const feeds  = await fetchFeeds();
const digest = await readDigest();

const snapshot = { ...portfolio, feeds, digest,
  refreshed_at: new Date().toISOString() };

writeFileSync('./data.js',
  `window.__DATA__ = ${JSON.stringify(snapshot, null, 2)};\n`);

console.log('wrote data.js', snapshot.refreshed_at);

The dashboard reads window.__DATA__ and overlays your localStorage edits on top. The refresh updates defaults; it never overwrites your edits. That's the key invariant.

The Morning Brief Composer

The email is the product. Six sections, in this order: top 3 actions today, pipeline due this week, per-company status, market headlines, KB digest, stale-cron warnings. HTML AND plaintext, both rendered from the same data.

Schedule + Shabbat Awareness

Windows Task Scheduler triggers scripts/daily-brief.mjs Sun-Fri at 07:00 local. Saturday is skipped at the OS level. Friday-evening / Saturday the script runs but suppresses the email at the application layer.

function isShabbatWindow(now = new Date()) {
  const day = now.getDay();          // 0=Sun, 6=Sat
  const hour = now.getHours();
  if (day === 6) return true;       // all of Sat
  if (day === 5 && hour >= 17) return true; // Fri eve onward
  return false;
}

await refreshData();        // always run
if (isShabbatWindow()) {
  console.log('Shabbat window. Email suppressed.');
  process.exit(0);
}
await sendBrief();

The scheduler script install-scheduler.ps1 registers a Sun-Fri only task. Belt-and-suspenders: even if you forget to enable the suppression, the OS won't trigger on Saturday. Belt fails, suspenders catch.

Edit Safety, Export, Reset

The single rule that makes the cockpit usable: your edits survive the morning refresh. The refresh updates DEFAULTS in data.js. The dashboard overlays YOUR edits from localStorage on top. If you've edited DueDrill's health to 6, tomorrow it stays 6 until you change it.