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2026-08-25
D021: Slate and Vouch join the featured case studies
Context: Two things shipped after D012 - Work Section Structure was written and were missing from the site entirely. Slate is live on the Mac App Store (id 6796836834, v1.3, released 4 Aug 2026) with a paid unlock. Vouch is published on npm as codevouch and open on GitHub. Between them they are the only evidence on the site for two things the work now leads with: shipping a paid native app through Apple review alone, and building tooling for working with agents.
Decision: Both become featured deep case studies with homeFeatured on, ordered 3.5 (Slate) and 3.8 (Vouch), directly after Ueue in the Personal / Labs track.
- Slate leads on the render harness and the two App Store validation rejections, not on the feature list.
- Vouch leads on the Gap, the measurement it exists to produce, and on the unused-dependency check that fell out of grounding dependencies in real call sites.
Why: D012 - Work Section Structure says curating what earns a deep dive is itself the signal. A featured shortlist that omits the only App Store product and the only tool other developers install understates the work by exactly the two dimensions that are currently scarcest. Six home-featured entries still reads as a shortlist rather than a dump.
Trade-offs: the featured count goes from 4 to 6, which lengthens the homepage list. Vouch's visual is a screenshot of its GitHub README rather than a product landing page, because it has no public site and the npm page is behind a bot check; its Web link points at GitHub so the browser frame's domain matches what the shot actually shows. The npm link lives in the case-study body and the live-now strip instead.
Follow-on: ProjectLink gained a Mac label so the Mac App Store is a first-class store rather than being filed under iOS. It renders the Apple badge with the wording "Mac App Store", and counts toward appsShipped in the derived stats, which moved to 8 apps and 9 live products. Both are still derived from the projects data, never hand-written.